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John Perry Barlow, Internet Pioneer, 1947-2018 With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF’s founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF. It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of Barlow’s vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical distance. Barlow was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naive techno-utopianism that believed that the Internet could solve all of humanity’s problems without causing any more. As someone who spent the past 27 years working with him at EFF, I can say that nothing could be further from the truth. Barlow knew that new technology could create...

Over the years, the Oil & Gas industry had come to accept that capital projects involved long execution times, high costs and, in some cases, a high degree of risk.  In an era where profits were relatively easy to come by and oil prices were high, project delays and costly project restarts were often considered “business as usual.”  In the new world of low commodity prices, and oversupply ̶ however, this “business as usual” approach to project execution is no longer sustainable. These new marketplace variables drive to one fundamental challenge: how Oil & Gas companies can reinvent their business to maintain profitability in a low-price environment. Fortunately, a new approach for improving oil & gas industry efficiency and profitability is now available to facilitate business process transformation and simplification. Advancements in digitization, system convergence, and analytics now make it possible to overcome business barriers that were once constrained by ...