Courtesy Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle:

As to much more workable ideas, computer guru/Electronic Frontier Foundation founder/songwriter John Perry Barlow was interviewed by David Kupfer. The subject was the origin of the Internet.

“The hippies built the Internet,” said Barlow, “in spite of the fact that it was a Defense Department project. There were very few people involved in the early days of the Internet who were not acidheads. … One of the things that happened when people took psychedelics was that you had the sense of everything being connected. It was such a powerful sense that all of us have been inspired by that to try to connect what is apparently separate here.”