John Perry Barlow is a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has written for a wild diversity of publications, ranging from Communications of the ACM to the New York Times to Nerve, and was on the masthead of Wired for many years. Barlow was named by FutureBanker Magazine (an ABA Publication) as "One of the 25 Most Influential People in Financial Services."