Richard Thieme
 Richard Thieme    | |
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| Born | 1944 Chicago |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Ex-Episcopal priest, commentator on technology and culture |
| Founder/Owner of | Thiemeworks |
| Interests | • UFOs • technology • Defcon |
Richard Thieme is a former priest who became a commentator on technology and culture, founding the consulting firm ThiemeWorks. He is a frequent keynote speaker at government agencies and technology conferences around the world, routinely drawing large audiences, and is described as an "institution" and "father figure" in the hacker convention circuit.[1][2] He is the author of the syndicated column "Islands in the Clickstream", which was published in 60 countries and in 2004 was turned into a book of the same name. In 2010 he published a book of short stories, Mind Games, and in 2012 he contributed to the peer-reviewed academic work, UFOs and Government, a Historical Inquiry. He has written for multiple publications including Wired, Forbes, and Salon.com.[3] Andrew Briney, editor-in-chief of Information Security magazine, describes Thieme as "a living symbol of the human dimension of technology".[4]
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Biography
Early life and academic career
Thieme was born in Chicago, with one of his parents Christian and one Jewish, and one older brother, Art.[5][6] Raised Jewish, Thieme was confirmed as a young man in a Reform synagogue,[7] and attended Lake View High School, graduating in 1961. As a teenager he began writing science fiction, with his first story, "Pleasant Journey", published by Joseph Campbell in Analog science fiction magazine in 1963, when Thieme was 19.[8] Thieme studied English literature at Northwestern University,[5] graduating Phi Beta Kappa and receiving his B.A. in 1965, and also marrying and starting a family.[9] In 1967, he earned an M.A. in English at the University of Chicago. For the next five years he taught literature at the University of Illinois - Chicago Circle campus, after which he moved to England for two years. There, at age 30, he converted to the Anglican church.[7]
Episcopal priest
When Thieme and his wife returned to the United States in the 1970s, they moved to Evanston, Illinois, where Thieme attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary to earn his Masters of Divinity degree, and he became an Episcopal priest.[10][11] His wife Anne was ordained in May 1978, the first woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest in Utah.[12] The Thiemes were co-rectors at St. James Episcopal Church in Midvale, Utah, but divorced in 1981. Richard remained as rector in the parish until 1984,[13] then transferred to become rector at the Holy Innocents church in Hawaii (1984–1987),[7] and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Milwaukee (1987–1993).[14] He married his second (and current) wife Shirley in 1983, merging their respective families to have a total of seven children.[5]
Technology commentator and author
In the early 1980s Thieme became acquainted with computers, at first interested in how they could apply to spirituality and religious organizations.[15][16] While still in the priesthood, he began writing about technology and culture, including the spiritual dimension of technology, for example in his essay "Computer applications for spirituality, the transformation of religious experience."[17] In 1993 Thieme left the priesthood to pursue a full-time career of professional speaking and writing,[5] founding his own company, LifeWorks (changed in 1996 to ThiemeWorks),[18] and working with clients such as Arthur Andersen, Allstate Insurance, General Electric, the National Security Agency, Microsoft, and the United States Department of the Treasury.[19][20]
In the mid-1990s, Thieme started writing a monthly online column, "Islands in the Clickstream". It began as emails and then grew into a mailing list, website, and syndicated column. Thieme gained a reputation as an "online pundit of hacker culture."[21] In 2004 a collection of 144 of his essays were published in the book Islands in the Clickstream.[22][23]
Regarded as a member of the "cyber avant-garde", Thieme has spoken for nearly two decades, since the mid-1990s, at the Def Con and Blackhat Briefings security conferences, focusing on the impact of new technologies on individuals and organizational structures, with an emphasis on security and intelligence,[24][25][26][9][20][27] and he has become somewhat of a "father figure" to many in the hacker subculture.[2]
In 2010, Thieme published Mind Games, which collected the various works of fiction he'd published in different locations into one place. In 2012, he contributed to the non-fiction book UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, which examines the government's treatment of UFO reports, going back to World War II.[28][29] The book was praised by the magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries for good sourcing, and recommended as "a useful resource for the study of a controversial topic".[30]
Documents by Richard Thieme
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Hacker Generations | article | 23 August 2011 | Mass surveillance Hacker Total information awareness Hacking | On the origins and real meaning of "Hacker"; a term which, in company with "conspiracy-theory", "Holocaust-denial" and many others has been co-opted/invented by Establishments to marginalise research deemed most threatening to the Official Narratives that define "Consensus trance" reality. |
| Document:It’s Identity, Stupid | article | 1 March 2013 | Intelligence agency Intentity politics | Insights into the real, counter-intuitive purposes and functioning of intelligence and security services. As a consequence of their determination of developments in surveillance, computing and related esoteric military technologies, their role of service to democratically determined policy has morphed into hidden, unaccountable shapers and arbiters of all policy that matters. |
| Document:Out of the Closet on UFOs | article | 16 February 2014 | UFO | Richard Thieme admitting to believing in UFO's (the variety that have no explanation other than that they are the transports of non-human sentient beings or robots and of other than earthly origin). |
References
- ↑ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7934
- ↑ Jump up to: a b http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2002-08-12-hacker-world_x.htm
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 26, 1997 Computer-savvy ex-priest melds technical, spiritual, Hawkins, Lee Jr - http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1683&dat=19970526&id=mjEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Jy4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3469,4675044
- ↑ Briney, Andrew, Islands in the Clickstream, 2004, Foreword
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d http://www.thiemeworks.com/uploads/M-Magazine-pdf2.pdf
- ↑ Islands, p. ix
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c St. Paul's new rector feels at home in city|date=August 29, 1987|work=Milwaukee Sentinel|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19870829&id=b4lQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kRIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4699,8332998%7Caccessdate=December 15, 2013|author=Murphy, Mary Beth
- ↑ http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1031559
- ↑ Jump up to: a b Bradbury, Danny|title=Documentation dearth undermines open source security|work=Infosecurity Today|volume=1|issue=5|date=2004|page=6
- ↑ http://www.futurebrief.com/richardbio.asp%7Cpublisher=futurebrief.com
- ↑ http://www.whitefishbaynow.com/news/mequon-author-discusses-research-book-at-north-shore-library-b9913236z1-208206201.html Fox Point's Richard Thieme discusses UFO research book at North Shore library
- ↑ cite news|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19791103&id=K5MqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p1sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6888,820968%7Cdate=November 3, 1979|work=Deseret News|accessdate=December 15, 2013|author=Christiansen, Joyce|title=St. Paul's rector is retiring after 23 years service
- ↑ cite news|date=June 27, 1981|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19810627&id=YzxTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YYMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6971,8323725%7Caccessdate=December 15, 2013|title=Bishop celebrates 10th anniversary at diocesan meet|author=Christiansen, Joyce|work=Deseret News
- ↑ Kendall, Peter|work=Milwaukee Business Journal|date=1994|title=On the Money - An investor's greatest asset: to know, or own, oneself
- ↑ Online church offers different approaches|work=Billings Gazette|date=June 25, 2004
- ↑ Meet your avatars online - electronic church is an experiment in high-tech religion|work=Kansas City Star|date=July 10, 2004|author=Heinen, Tom
- ↑ http://www.thiemeworks.com/article-in-the-north-shore-herald/
- ↑ Kendall, Peter|title=The watch isn't broken, it's just wound very tight|work=Milwaukee Business Journal|date=October 28, 1995|page=13
- ↑ http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ear/nsc110/Crystal/WashPost.html
- ↑ Jump up to: a b http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hope42day/2012/10/17/btrs-hope42day-interviews-keynote-speaker-richard-thieme
- ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/24/news/ls-15597/2
- ↑ http://www.techsoc.com/clickstream.htm
- ↑ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7935
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/11/defcon.idg/
- ↑ http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-12665-richard-thieme%E2%80%99s-take-on-technology-and-its-effects.html
- ↑ http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/09hack.html
- ↑ http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/05/technology/cybersecurity_myth/
- ↑ The outer limits - former priest to speak about UFO book|work=The Freeman|date=July 6, 2013|author=Wandsneider, Gregg
- ↑ UFOs get historical, scientific treatment|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinal|date=November 29, 2012|author=Loohauis-Bennett, Jackie
- ↑ Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries|volume=50|issue=6|date=February 2013|title=Reviews: UFOs and government: a historical inquiry|quote=Although these nine authors are part of the UFO community, they are not advocates of fringe theories. Their narrative is firmly based on the available sources.... A useful resource for the study of a controversial topic... Recommended, all levels/libraries.|author=Fritze, R.
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