Tech Visionaries and LSD: Turn On, Tune In, Geek Out

9 tech visionaries who's mind-blowing adventures on acid forever influenced the computer industry.

By , CIO |  Offbeat, John Markoff, slideshow

John Perry Barlow

The one-time Grateful Dead lyricist and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has reportedly taken psychedelic drugs "more than a thousand times." But, he says in an essay for the anthology, Tripping, that it was his first experience with LSD in 1966 that truly altered his consciousness.

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