{"id":2318,"date":"2014-07-20T13:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T03:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2014-07-20T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T03:44:42","slug":"john-perry-barlow-which-side-do-you-want-to-be-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"John Perry Barlow: Which side of history do you want to be on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The main thing here is for people to recognize that what we&#8217;re doing is creating the foundations of the future in a very fundamental way.<\/p>\n<p>I mean we&#8217;re building the\u00a0future that we all might want or all might not want, depending on our current vested interests.<\/p>\n<p>I think it takes a really\u00a0crummy ancestor to want to maintain his current business model at the expense of his descendant&#8217;s\u00a0ability to understand the world around them.<\/p>\n<p>And if you really want to figure out which side you&#8217;re on, ask yourself what&#8217;s going to make you a better ancestor?<\/p>\n<p>John Perry Barlow<br \/>\nCo-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed in the feature documentary &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2033981\/\">Downloaded<\/a>&#8221; aired on SBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The main thing here is for people to recognize that what we&#8217;re doing is creating the foundations of the future in a very fundamental way. I mean we&#8217;re building the\u00a0future that we all might want or all might not want, depending on our current vested interests. I think it takes a really\u00a0crummy ancestor to want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=2318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Perry Barlow: Which side of history do you want to be on?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14,19,5,8,24,18,17,6,12,27,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-complex-adaptive-systems","category-cool","category-data-saving-lives","category-entrepreneurship","category-file-note","category-meaning","category-musings","category-politics","category-power-aphorisms","category-storytelling","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}