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American poet and essayist (1947–2018)

Also known as: John Barlow, Perry Barlow, Джон Перри Барлоу, جون بري بارلو, 존 페리 바로우, ジョン・ペリー・バーロウ

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The Hacker Crackdown chronicles the same early cyberspace civil-liberties battles. (AI reason)
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Essays on code, law and free culture engage directly with digital freedom themes. (AI reason)
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Cory Doctorow1971–
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Activist essays and fiction on digital rights, surveillance and information freedom. (AI reason)
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Kevin Kelly1952–
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Visionary Wired-era writing on networks, technology and emergent culture. (AI reason)
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Fred Turner1864–
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture analyzes the very movement Barlow's writing embodies. (AI reason)
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Timothy Leary1920–1996
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Psychedelic-countercultural prose that later embraced cyberspace as liberation. (AI reason)
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Edward Abbey1927–1989
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Iconoclastic Western essays mixing ranch-country landscape with libertarian defiance. (AI reason)
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