WEBCAST TODAY: John Perry Barlow 2008 Lecture ‘The First Internet Election’ at NYU

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Joly MacFie <joly () punkcast com>
> Date: February 8, 2018 at 5:07:14 AM EST
> To: ISOC Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates () elists isoc org>
> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] WEBCAST TODAY: John Perry Barlow 2008 Lecture ‘The First Internet Election’ at NYU
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> ​​Today is the 22nd anniversary of the publication of John Perry Barlow's .Declaration of the Independence of 
> Cyberspace on Feb 8 1996. A day that arguably might be recognized as Internet Independence Day. Sadly John Perry 
> Barlow himself will only be with us to celebrate it in spirit , since, as you undoubtedly will have heard, his 
> physical self expired yesterday morning. Although Barlow was known for his Wyoming roots, and his San Francisco 
> escapades, he was very much a New Yorker, long residing at Mott and Grand in Little Italy. In 2008 we were able to 
> take advantage of this proximity to have him, just 11 days before Obama's election, ruminate on the growing role of 
> the Internet in politics.
> Displaying the wit, charm, and humor for which he is justly loved, in the talk Barlow focused on Obama's savvy 
> harnessing of nascent social media for both fundraising and organizing, but he also accurately foresaw the fake news, 
> bubbles, etc that are current election hallmarks. Apart from that he defined several useful concepts: jamais vu - 
> remembering things that never happened; macro myopia - the tendency to overestimate the influence of a technology on 
> society in the short term, and underestimate it in the long term; and pronoid - a pathological condition where you 
> think the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf. Watch the stream at 11am EST.
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> On October 27 2008 EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow
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> ​ ​delivered the fourth lecture in Evan Korth’s Computers and Society Speaker Series. The topic – “The First Internet 
> Election?” Barlow wrote about his inspiration for th​e lecture:
> Ten years ago when I was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School, I was on a panel with 
> Senator Ted Kennedy and my tragically late sidekick John Kennedy, Jr. The focus of our discussion was determining 
> when the Internet would likely have the pivotal role in shaping a presidential campaign that television had assumed 
> in the 1960 election of their brother and father. Oddly, for a couple of guys who were deeply suspicious of 
> Cyberspace, they both thought this would happen much sooner than I did, possibly as early as 2000. I said it would be 
> a decade at least. It has now been a decade. And this, with any luck at all, will now be that election.
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> At 11am EST (14:00 UTC) today February 8 2018 the video of this talk will be streamed on the Internet Society 
> Livestream Channel (with open captions). The Computers and Society Speaker Series speaker series was sponsored by the 
> Internet Society – NY Chapter, Free Culture @ NYU, Women in Computing (WinC), and the Association for Computing 
> Machinery NYU Chapter.
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> View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/barlow/
> Facebook simulcast: https://www.facebook.com/isocny/
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