Richard Thieme – PSV 2021
Author and Futurist
Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking generally addresses “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity.
Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, six books, and has delivered hundreds of speeches. When a friend at the NSA told him, “The only way you can tell the truth [that we discuss} is through fiction,” he returned to writing short stories, one result of which is Mind Games, a collection of nineteen stories, and the novels FOAM and Mobius: A Memoir.
Thieme has keynoted security conferences in 14 countries. Clients range from GE, Microsoft and Medtronic to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon Security Forum, FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. Los Alamos National Lab, and the US Secret Service. His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, and keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo with “Fiction is the Only Way to Tell the Truth: Life in the National Security State.” He keynoted the Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria BC in 2018 for the third time – his topic was “Real Birds in Digital Cages: The Chickens Come Home to Roost.” Two years earlier his keynote there was, “When Privacy Goes Poof! – Why It’s Gone and Never Coming Back.”
Richard Thieme (www.thiemeworks.com) is an author and professional speaker focused on the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. His speaking generally addresses “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity.
Thieme has published hundreds of articles, dozens of short stories, six books, and has delivered hundreds of speeches. When a friend at the NSA told him, “The only way you can tell the truth [that we discuss} is through fiction,” he returned to writing short stories, one result of which is Mind Games, a collection of nineteen stories, and the novels FOAM and Mobius: A Memoir.
Thieme has keynoted security conferences in 14 countries. Clients range from GE, Microsoft and Medtronic to the National Security Agency, the Pentagon Security Forum, FBI, US Dept of the Treasury. Los Alamos National Lab, and the US Secret Service. His work has been taught at universities in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States, and he has guest lectured at numerous universities. He addressed the reinvention of “Europe” as a “cognitive artifact” for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, keynoted “The Real Truth: A World’s Fair” at Raven Row Gallery, London, and keynoted Code Blue in Tokyo with “Fiction is the Only Way to Tell the Truth: Life in the National Security State.” He keynoted the Annual Privacy and Security Conference in Victoria BC in 2018 for the third time – his topic was “Real Birds in Digital Cages: The Chickens Come Home to Roost.” Two years earlier his keynote there was, “When Privacy Goes Poof! – Why It’s Gone and Never Coming Back.”
