We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. John Perry Barlow More Quotes by John Perry Barlow More Quotes From John Perry Barlow In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. John Perry Barlow politics space firsts I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. John Perry Barlow magic miracle believe Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials. John Perry Barlow change people firsts The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. John Perry Barlow shame privacy differences Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works. John Perry Barlow creating connections humanity But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in. John Perry Barlow engagement degrees political I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. John Perry Barlow intellectual giving thinking The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable. John Perry Barlow monopoly force government The stratosphere is my church. John Perry Barlow stratosphere church Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life. John Perry Barlow service you life way Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge. John Perry Barlow will you ethics believe It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. John Perry Barlow fantasy together long people They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases. John Perry Barlow legal saying back purpose The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual. John Perry Barlow exaggerate individual internet power The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate. John Perry Barlow nation internet political time
