John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was born in Wyoming in 1947, educated there in a one-room schoolhouse, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with an honors degree in comparative religion in 1969. In 1971, he began operating the Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company, a large cow-calf operation in Cora, Wyoming where he grew up. He continued to do so until he sold it in 1988.

He has been co-writing songs with the Grateful Dead since 1971. In 1990 he and Mitchell Kapor founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization which promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He is a writer and lecturer on subjects relating to the virtualization of society and is a contributing editor of numerous publications, including Communications of the ACM, Microtimes, and Mondo 2000. He is also a contributing writer for WIRED . He is a recognized commentator on computer security, Virtual Reality, digitized intellectual property, and the social and legal conditions arising in the global network of connected digital devices.

He is probably the only former Republican Country Chairman in America willing to call himself a hippie mystic without lowering his voice. He also recognizes that there is a difference between information and experience and vastly prefers the latter. He is the father of three daughters and lives in Wyoming, New York, and Cyberspace.

John Perry Barlow can be reached at:
fax: +1 202 393 5509
e-Mail: barlow@eff.org
www: www.eff.org/homes/barlow.html