Matt: Declaration of the Independence

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.

30 years a 1 month later, it seems like an apt time to revisit John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. The poetry is amazing.