A few days ago CNET ran a pretty good interview with John Perry Barlow, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Opining that “mass media exists to confirm the hallucinations of the masses,” Barlow worries that the content industries are taking over the world and private totalitarianism—through continued consolidation of media properties—is a very real possibility.
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