John Perry Barlow is a former songwriter for the Grateful Dead and the joint founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which lobbies for cyber rights. He shares Eric's concerns for the future of free speech on the Internet. What we're dealing with is the battle between the future and the past, between the powers that were in the powers that have yet to be. John believes the Internet will change the world much like the Industrial Revolution did at the end of the 19th century. He has crafted his own declaration of independence for the citizens of cyberspace. Governments of the industrial world, 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 here. You have no sovereignty where we gather. You do not know us nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Your legal concepts, the property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter and there is no matter here.