Confirmed, RIP John Perry Barlow
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Confirmed, RIP John Perry Barlow
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bird on the horizon, silver wingin' back to me...
bird on the horizon, silver wingin' back to me...
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Safe travels John. Thx for the words.
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Wow.... what a bummer.
Long live Bob Weir. Thank god we still have him.
Long live Bob Weir. Thank god we still have him.
Its a dark shade of sunlight that flickered on top of my coffee yesterday.....
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Fare thee well man
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Thanks for the GRATE songs!
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Very sad
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Damn. Really sad to hear this news. He wasn't looking too good in that last picture someone here posted of him and Bobby. I remember the Ratdog and He who shall not be named afterparties at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in NYC. He would attend and mill about the crowd. Super cool and down-to-earth person.
We lost a remarkable person in Barlow. He did a lot with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was a pioneer of words and thought. The internet as we know it today was influenced and shaped by Barlow. He will be remembered for many many years to come. Fare Thee Well...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/j ... -1947-2018
With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF.
It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow’s vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical distance.
Barlow was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naive techno-utopianism that believed that the Internet could solve all of humanity's problems without causing any more. As someone who spent the past 27 years working with him at EFF, I can say that nothing could be further from the truth. Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls 'turn-key totalitarianism.'”
Barlow’s lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into “a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth . . . a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.”
In the days and weeks to come, we will be talking and writing more about what a extraordinary role Barlow played for the Internet and the world. And as always, we will continue the work to fulfill his dream.
We lost a remarkable person in Barlow. He did a lot with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was a pioneer of words and thought. The internet as we know it today was influenced and shaped by Barlow. He will be remembered for many many years to come. Fare Thee Well...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/j ... -1947-2018
With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF.
It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow’s vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical distance.
Barlow was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naive techno-utopianism that believed that the Internet could solve all of humanity's problems without causing any more. As someone who spent the past 27 years working with him at EFF, I can say that nothing could be further from the truth. Barlow knew that new technology could create and empower evil as much as it could create and empower good. He made a conscious decision to focus on the latter: "I knew it’s also true that a good way to invent the future is to predict it. So I predicted Utopia, hoping to give Liberty a running start before the laws of Moore and Metcalfe delivered up what Ed Snowden now correctly calls 'turn-key totalitarianism.'”
Barlow’s lasting legacy is that he devoted his life to making the Internet into “a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth . . . a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.”
In the days and weeks to come, we will be talking and writing more about what a extraordinary role Barlow played for the Internet and the world. And as always, we will continue the work to fulfill his dream.
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such a bummer - friend just wrote me to tell me.
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Very sad. RIP to a great man. He changed my life.
Just like a deaf man dancin', Like a blind man shooting pool...
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
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Bummer indeed. Vibes to all affected.
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RIP John Perry Barlow
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RIP John. Its a sad day
Vibes to all that loved him
Vibes to all that loved him
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Terrible news. Guy really was a genius with his songwriting and internet work. I was wondering the other day how his health was, seemed like he'd been having a lot of trouble the past few years. Huge loss. RIP.
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Extremely tough news to take.
He was an excellent man on so many levels.
I truly treasure his lyrics, but there was much more to this man.
My heart goes out to him, his family and his buddy Bob.
Thank you JPB!!!!
He was an excellent man on so many levels.
I truly treasure his lyrics, but there was much more to this man.
My heart goes out to him, his family and his buddy Bob.
Thank you JPB!!!!
Re: Confirmed, RIP John Perry Barlow
Is there anything a man don't stand to lose
When the devil wants to take it all away
Cherish well your thoughts, keep a tight grip on your booze
'Cause thinking and drinking are all I have today
Till They Put Me Under
It's Festival Time
It's Festival Time
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The economy of ideas. He was a head of his time.
Re: Confirmed, RIP John Perry Barlow
Met him once at a BK3 show boat cruise in NYC. I said hello and proceeded to ask him a question. He stopped me and said. " I want to know your full name first my friend " Class act that man... Just having a 5 min conversation made me appreciate him and that moment for me will forever be frozen in time. He didn't have no problem talking about writing with Brent and listening to my previous tour banter. Wise Soul
RIP John - you will be missed
Lyrics By: John Barlow
Music By: Bob Weir
I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream
Ah child of countless trees
Ah child of boundless seas
What you are, what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me
Born to me, Cassidy
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac
I can tell by the way you smile, he is rolling back
Come wash the night-time clean
Come grow the scorched ground green
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me, Cassidy
Quick beats in an icy heart
Catch colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes and now here she starts
Hear her cry
Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
Faring thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own designs
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine
RIP John - you will be missed
Lyrics By: John Barlow
Music By: Bob Weir
I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream
I can tell by the mark he left, you were in his dream
Ah child of countless trees
Ah child of boundless seas
What you are, what you're meant to be
Speaks his name, though you were born to me
Born to me, Cassidy
Lost now on the country miles in his Cadillac
I can tell by the way you smile, he is rolling back
Come wash the night-time clean
Come grow the scorched ground green
Blow the horn, tap the tambourine
Close the gap of the dark years in between
You and me, Cassidy
Quick beats in an icy heart
Catch colt draws a coffin cart
There he goes and now here she starts
Hear her cry
Flight of the seabirds
Scattered like lost words
Wheel to the storm and fly
Faring thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own designs
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I'm done with mine