Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I 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 • A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
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... See more
Cindy Cohn • John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018
Reading the Hacker Manifesto as a hacker teen was a quasi-religious experience where the first time I felt like I wasn't alone in what I was experiencing and feeling -- here it is:
"The Conscience of a Hacker"
-- The Mentor, January 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it's... See more
Amjad Masadx.com“The really great privilege of the elites of the future will be to erase the computer information about them, and assume their private identities again.”
Marshall McLuhan, 1969
"We lost public spaces. Online public spaces. Facebook and Google are shopping malls, but we think they are parks!"
—
Aral Balkan