JOHN PERRY BARLOW

THIS SPEAKER'S SET FEE PLACES HIM/HER WITHIN THE RANGE OF:

$15,001 to $25,000
 
TRAVELS FROM: Wyoming

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SPEECH TITLES AND/OR TOPICS

  • Cyberspace
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • The Economy of Ideas
  • Freedom of Expression in Digital Media
  • The Digital Economy: The Future of Copyright

Categories

Ecommerce/Internet | Economy | Technology

Biography

John Perry Barlow is a former Wyoming rancher and Grateful Dead lyricist. He graduated in 1969 with high honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. More recently, he co-founded and still co-chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation. John Barlow was the first to apply the term "Cyberspace" to the place it presently describes.

John Perry Barlow has written for diverse publications, including Communications of the ACM, Mondo 2000, the New York Times, and Time.

John Barlow has been on the masthead of Wired Magazine since it was founded. His piece on the future of copyright, The Economy of Ideas is taught in many law schools and his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace is posted on thousands of web sites.

John Perry Barlow has been a Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics since 1997, and since 1998 has been a Berkman Fellow at the Harvard Law School.

He works actively with several consulting groups, including Diamond Technology Partners, Vanguard, and Global Business Network.

In June 1999, Future Banker Magazine named John Perry Barlow, "One of the 25 Most Influential People in Financial Services." He writes, speaks, and consults on a broad variety of subjects, particularly digital economy.

John Perry Barlow lives in Wyoming, New York, San Francisco, On the Road, and in Cyberspace. He has three teenaged daughters and aspires to be a good ancestor.

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