this generated further reaction and support for the ideas of barlow and kapor. in late june, barlow held a series of dinners in san francisco with major figures in the computer industry to develop a coherent response to these perceived threats. barlow considered that: "the actions of the fbi and secret service were symptoms of a growing social crisis: future shock. america was entering the information age with neither laws nor metaphors for the appropriate protection and conveyance of information itself." barlow felt that to confront this a formal organization would be needed; he hired cathy cook as press coordinator, and began to set up what would become the electronic frontier foundation.