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JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
I was at the 1993 NeXT Expo and remember seeing JPB. Never quite understood his background at that time. But was intrigued by his connection to Steve Jobs and NeXT.
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I was at the 1993 NeXT Expo and remember seeing JPB. Never quite understood his background at that time. But was intrigued by his connection to Steve Jobs and NeXT.
Did you happen to see a woman with long blonde hair in his vicinity?
JPB was a true artist and technologist. His art was inspired by the past and his policy by the future.
JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Audio version (with JPB himself): https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/conventions/act-three
1993-1994 was also an important period for the legal case which motivated the creation of the EFF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation...
My JPB Story: I’d come to find myself in Portland. In the home of a stranger but there was no cause for alarm. This place felt like a home. It was real and a part of our collective universe. I never met my host, not once while I was there. She was a kindred spirit. Her home was warm and welcoming but I never knew her. On the last day of my trip, we managed to cross paths in the house, only in sound, never vision. She…
Such a loss. Who is the thought leader today to push back on the huge curtailment of online freedoms happening around the world. Even in the HN crowd, you see people succumbing to nationalism and making arguments to support their government's right to impose their court decisions on foreign jurisdictions in cyberspace. The problem isn't just the Great Firewall, it's stuff like Turkey or Thailand getting YouTube to ta…
Judgine from this thread, everyone.
John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, EFF founders.