I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
John Perry BarlowThe real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone, anti-sovereign and unregulatable, the Internet calls into question the very idea of a nation-state.
John Perry BarlowWe are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
John Perry BarlowI come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
John Perry Barlow