Videos of Speeches and Interviews
Max Kilger Interviews Richard Thieme about Mobius
Professor Max Kilger goes into Mobius: A Memoir in Depth and Detail with Author Richard Thieme
Now More Than Ever
A quarter-century ago, I began addressing the impacts of the hacker revolution on the human inside the machine - how it would transform our lives, our thinking, our work, our identities. I was describing the "digital revolution" as a transformational engine, not as an...
The Beginning Of The End?
Beware lest staring into the abyss turns into the abyss staring into you, Nietzsche warned. But once we are committed to seeing clearly and saying clearly what we see, it is hard to turn away. Richard Thieme has spent 25+ years in this “infosec space,” and the phase...
Freeing the Mind
Exploring the relationship of context to content in a world transformed by new technologies that challenge traditional thinking rooted in prior technologies and how new technologies do not merely extend our senses and cognitive abilities but change us into human...
The Road to Resilience: Strategies for Playing Through the Pain
"The Road to Resilience: Strategies for Playing Through the Pain" by Richard Thieme at Def Con 26 (August 11, 2018) is now available on YouTube. 23rd year at Def Con. Connecting with the heart of a left-brain crowd.The Road to Resilience: Strategies for Playing...
Interview with Rob Cheyne at Source Austin
A quarter-century ago, I began addressing the impacts of the hacker revolution on the human inside the machine - how it would transform our lives, our thinking, our work, our identities. I was describing the "digital revolution" as a transformational engine, not as an...
Beyond the Fringe: Anomalies of Consciousness, Experience, and Scientific Research – CypherCon 2
New truths emerge on the edges of our thinking, the Oort Belt of scientific paradigms. As Richard Feynman said, the critical fact that is both a fact and an anomaly can become the cornerstone of a new way thinking about things. But we have to walk a blade as well,...
When Privacy Goes Poof!
"Get over it!" as Scott McNeeley said - unhelpfully. Only if we understand why it is gone and not coming back do we have a shot at rethinking what privacy means in a new context. Thieme goes deep and wide as he rethinks the place of privacy in the new social/cultural...
Biohacking
Distinguishing the transhumanist hype from the sane science is not always easy. Then add the antics of real hackers to the mix – adventuresome sometimes reckless souls who want to tease out of a complex system ways to make it do what it was never designed to do,...
Playing Through the Pain
Dismissing or laughing off concerns about what it does to a person to know critical secrets does not lessen the impact on life, work, and relationships of building a different map of reality than “normal people” use. One has to calibrate narratives to what another...
Critical Thinking for Def Con Kidz
This short mini-keynote for r00tz Asylum spoke to "kidz" ages 6-16 on critical thinking, using biohacking and UFO studies as examples.
The Only Way to Tell the Truth is in Fiction: The Dynamics of Life in the National Security State
A Keynote for Code Blue - Tokyo Japan 2015 Keynote for Code Blue 2015 in Tokyo - "The Only Way to Tell the Truth is in Fiction: The Dynamics of Life in the National Security State" is now online at Over a decade ago, a friend at the National Security Agency...