“Imagine you are hitchhiking and an ancient Mustang pulls up and the most interesting guy in the world beckons you to hop in. He’s driving 100 miles per hour all night long, and for the next three days he’s telling you tales, each one bigger and badder and more profound than the one before it. This is a hilarious, rhetorical, and soul-prodding book. I never feel so alive as when Barlow is telling me a story, and here are a life’s worth.”
—Kevin Kelly
“John Perry Barlow unmoored us from the clay of Earth and delivered us into a place of digital freedom. He leaves us with this kaleidoscopic necklace of colorful vignettes painted in his unique and poignant way.”
—Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer
“Reading John Perry Barlow’s book is like a spirited visit with him. He was a rebel, having almost mystical and cosmic gifts of communication, wisdom, and awareness. Mankind was his cause. His book confirms the solace he found when he learned to love and be loved.”
—Alan K. Simpson, U.S. senator, Wyoming (retired)
“It was easy to befriend John Perry Barlow…he was a visionary of the worldwide Web and prophet of cyberspace, the idea of the Internet as a libertarian realm beyond the reach of governments. He was also, at various times, a cattle rancher in Wyoming and a lyricist for the rock band Grateful Dead….Barlow had the air of a global vagabond.”
—Financial Times
“Barlow is the uncrowned poet laureate of cyberspace.”
—Mitchell Kapor, cofounder of the Electronic Freedom Frontier
“I loved this book. I am a slow reader, but I read it twice in three and a half days. I have since gone back and begun reading chapters in no particular order, which seems fine to me as well. I first met John about forty years ago, and we have been fast friends ever since.”
—Ramblin’ Jack Elliott