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John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Freedom of the Press Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He has been identified by ''Time'' magazine as one of the "School of Rock: 10 Supersmart Musicians".〔.〕 ==Life and career== John Perry Barlow was born in Sublette County, Wyoming to parents Norman Barlow, a Republican state legislator, and his wife, Miriam. He grew up on the 22,000-acre Bar Cross Ranch near Pinedale, Wyoming that was founded by his great uncle in 1907 and attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse. At age 15, he became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado. Barlow met Bob Weir there, who would later join the music group the Grateful Dead. Weir and Barlow maintained contact throughout the years; a frequent visitor to Timothy Leary's facility in Millbrook, New York, Barlow introduced the musical group to Leary in 1967. In 1969, Barlow graduated with high honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and spent two years traveling around India.〔http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20102268,00.html〕 In 1971, while on his way to California to go join back up with the Grateful Dead, he stopped at his family's ranch not intending to stay, but ended up changing his plans and began practicing animal husbandry in Cora, Wyoming at the Bar Cross Land and Livestock Company for almost two decades, until he sold that business in 1988. In the meantime, Barlow was still able to play an active role in the Grateful Dead, and also recruit many unconventional part-time ranch hands from the mainstream as well as counterculture.〔http://www.cookephoto.com/jpb.html〕 John Byrne Cooke is currently producing "The Bar Cross Ranch" (working title), a film featuring this era.〔https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-byrne-cooke/99/962/182〕 The seeds of the Barlow–Weir collaboration were sown at a Grateful Dead show at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, in February 1971. Until then, Weir had mostly worked with resident Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Hunter preferred that those who sang his songs stick to his "canonical" lyrics rather than improvising additions or rearranging words. A feud erupted backstage over a couplet in "Sugar Magnolia" from the band's most recent release (most likely "She can dance a Cajun rhythm/Jump like a Willys in four-wheel drive"), culminating in a disgruntled Hunter summoning Barlow and telling him "take him (Weir)—he's yours".〔.〕 In the fall of 1971, with a deal for a solo album in hand and only two songs completed, Weir and Barlow began to write together for the first time. Note: Capitol Theater New York Shows from February 1971 have no changes to lyrics noted above, all shows are on Archive.org. The twosome hammered out such enduring songs as "Cassidy", "Mexicali Blues", and "Black Throated Wind", all three of which would remain in the repertoires of the Grateful Dead and Weir's varied solo projects for years to come. Other songs to emerge from the Weir-Barlow collaboration include "Let It Grow", "The Music Never Stopped", "Estimated Prophet", "I Need A Miracle", "Lost Sailor", "Saint of Circumstance", "Hell In A Bucket", and "Throwing Stones". Barlow also collaborated with Grateful Dead keyboardists Brent Mydland then later Vince Welnick. In 1986 Barlow joined The WELL online community, then known for a strong Deadhead presence. He served on the company's board of directors for several years. In 1990, Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with fellow digital-rights activists John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor. As a founder of EFF, Barlow helped publicize the Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games. Barlow's involvement is later documented in the ''The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier'' (1992) by Bruce Sterling.〔.〕 EFF later sponsored the ground-breaking case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service. Steve Jackson Games won the case in 1993. He married Elaine Parker Barlow in 1977, with whom he had three daughters: Amelia Rose, Anna Winter, and Leah Justine. Elaine and John separated in 1992 and officially divorced in 1995. In 2002, he helped his friend realtor/ entrepreneur/〔http://www.metro.us/lifestyle/get-the-model-treatment-with-row-a/zsJoce---EHl97byyLnw6/〕 model〔http://www.bellaagency.com/portfolio.aspx?nav=3&city=ny&modelID=594947&subid=5493&mainsubid=5493〕/ actress〔http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1799045/〕 Simone Banos deliver her daughter Emma Victoria, who became his surrogate daughter henceforth.〔http://www.narconews.com/Issue29/article728.html〕〔http://www.mobypicture.com/user/JPBarlow/view/15666637〕 He was engaged to Dr. Cynthia Horner, whom he met in 1993 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco while she was attending a psychiatry conference and Barlow was participating in a Steve Jobs comedy roast at a convention for the NeXT Computer. She died unexpectedly in 1994 while asleep on a flight from Los Angeles to New York, days before her 30th birthday, from a heart arrhythmia apparently caused by undetected viral myocarditis. Barlow describes this experience on This American Life Episode 74, "Conventions," which originally aired on August 29, 1997.〔How Barlow met his fiancée at a convention center, and what happened afterwards, in Min. 37.〕〔http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/74/conventions〕 Barlow had been a good friend of John F. Kennedy, Jr. ever since his mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had made arrangements for her son to be a wrangler at the Bar Cross ranch for 6 months in 1978, and later the two men went on many double dates in New York City with Kennedy's then-girlfriend Daryl Hannah〔http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/slideshow/Iconic-80s-actresses-51412/photo-3650367.php〕 and Cynthia. In the September 1, 1995 article for the Shambhala Sun, "bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow," Barlow reflects upon Cynthia Horner passing away: "It seems to me that what we’re here to do is to learn about love in the presence of fear... You pass away from the moment into the infinite, where there are no moments and where there’s no time. Here in an embodied state, the body, like all physical things, participates in entropy and all the other artifacts of time. There’s a thin but nevertheless impermeable membrane between the chronological and the timeless that has become much more real to me since my lover died a year ago. Even though I feel her soul, the absence of her body feels like an enormous barrier. The absence of the spoken word, the absence of the sound of her voice, or the touch of her skin. All the things that only can be done by souls with bodies on them... But you know the only time that I feel in contact with her, really, is when her spirit temporarily borrows someone else’s body to dance. Like the moment that you and I were dancing up in your apartment a few months ago. And suddenly she was in you and I could feel her there. You quit dancing the way you danced and started dancing the way she danced. And it was almost like a practical joke that she was playing in a way."〔http://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/〕 In his piece "A Ladies' Man and Shameless" Barlow professes his love of many women at the same time, and summarizes the relationships in his personal life, "I doubt I’ll ever be monogamous again... I want to know as many more women as time and their indulgence will permit me... There are probably twenty-five or thirty women—I certainly don’t count them—for whom I feel an abiding and deep emotional attachment. They’re scattered all over the planet. They range in age from less than half to almost twice my own. Most of these relationships are not actively sexual. Some were at one time. More never will be. But most of them feel as if they could become so. I love the feel of that tension, the delicious gravity of possibilities."〔http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/07/13/a-ladies-man-and-shameless/〕 In 1996, Barlow was invited to speak about his work in Cyberspace to a middle school classroom at North Shore Country Day School, which was a highly influential event in the early life of student Aaron Swartz, as Swartz's father Robert recalls Aaron coming home that day a changed person.〔http://www.aaronswartzday.org/john-perry-barlow-recalls-a-12-year-old-aaron-swartz/〕〔https://twitter.com/JPBarlow/status/574421283431043072〕 Although they were not close as adults, they shared many common causes and Barlow's face shows up clearly in the background of several shots in The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. In 2003, Barlow met the recently appointed Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil at the event Tactic Media Brazil to discuss the perspectives of digital inclusion and political participation, which in the following years would help shape Brazilian governmental policy on intellectual property and digital media.〔http://culturadigital.br/braziliandigitalculture/gilberto-gil-and-john-perry-barlow-will-meet-again-at-the-brazilian-digital-culture-forum/〕〔http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/arts/music/11roht.html?pagewanted=all〕 In 2004, the two began working together to expand the availability and variety of Brazilian music to remix and share online. At the same time, being one of the Digerati, Barlow was among the very first users of the invitation-only social network Orkut at its inception, and decided to send all of his 100 invitations to friends in Brazil. Two years later, out of 14 million total internet users in Brazil, 11 million were on Orkut.〔http://www.buzzfeed.com/jruv/why-brazil-is-actually-winning-the-internet#.dk20AqxXD〕 Barlow is a friend and former roommate〔http://gawker.com/302715/john-perry-barlows-bacchanal-on-clayton-street〕 of entrepreneur Sean Parker, and attended Parker's controversial 2013 wedding.〔http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2335884/Sean-Parker-wedding-Revealed-The-pictures-Sean-Parkers-magical-wedding-movie-set-cost-2-5m-fine.html〕 In 2014, Barlow suffered the loss of Buck, his beloved Maine Coon cat that he believed to be a bodhisattva〔http://www.mobypicture.com/user/JPBarlow/view/17195043〕 and who had many fans via social media.〔https://www.facebook.com/buckthecat〕 Barlow had a heart attack on May 27, 2015, after a series of illnesses. He later reported, via online social media and in interviews, that he is recovering.〔Garchik, Leah (June 7, 2015). ("John Perry Barlow Says He's Come Back from the Dead" ), ''San Francisco Chronicle''. Retrieved June 7, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Perry Barlow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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