Welcome to My World

Richard Thieme

Hello there.

I am Richard Thieme, an author and professional speaker focused on the deeper implications of technology, religion, and science for twenty-first-century life. I do my best to address some of the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet these challenges, and creativity in response to radical change. I speak to “the human in the machine,” technology-related security and intelligence issues as they come home to our humanity. Now more than ever, in the age of AI, we need to be the humans in the loop. The meta-sphere, the symbiotic relationship between human and machine intelligence, demnds it. 

I take the word “spirituality” seriously. I think it means “what works–what really works” for an optimal outcome for flawed human beings. By implication, it refers to “what works” for the planet too. As we grow older, our circle of interest gets larger and larger. We care about the whole big mess. 

We silverbacks find ourselves so tuned to younger people that their triumphs are our triumphs, we rejoice in contributing to others because we are an organic unity, and we feel that, we sense it, we experience it, more deeply than ever. We know our limits, but we want to make a difference, and as George Bernard Shaw said, we want to be all used up when we die.

Contact me to discuss what you find on this website or in my speeches or writing. All my life, as an instructor in literature and writing at the University of Illinois, as an Episcopal clergyman in Utah, Maui, and Milwaukee, and for the past 32 years as a consultant and speaker and author, I have done my best to articulate illuminating insights that contribute to others. I live for others. And as always – have mouth, will travel,