a declaration of a independence : bright idea indeed

Googling for John Perry’s online manifesto brought up this article and interview with Jaron Lanier. Well worth reading and listening into.

As for the declaration of independence itself, here you go:

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”

where did I hear of it, you ask? Why, in a bbc documentary of course…