Another friend passes: it may take a while to come to an understanding that we are now cast adrift in Cyberspace without Barlow. This is an odd and unfamiliar concept - John's curiosity and passion for truth and the freedom of human expression resonated with many of us from the day the first connected with a modem. It did not take very long for John to become, whether he wanted to or not, the moral compass of cyberspace, the wisest old man in the new global village.