Videos of Speeches and Interviews

Calling a person a "conspiracy theorist" is an easy way to dismiss what used to be called "an investigative journalist" as if they are fringe, wacko, loopy or insane. But the deeper we go into the sources of "frame management" by oligarchic networks,...

Getting Root: Remote Viewing, Non-Local Consciousness, Big Picture Hacking, and Knowing Who You Are A Journey in Speculative Exploration

Bill Gates was not kidding. Have a listen.

"You're over the line," an intelligence professional told Richard Thieme recently. "You know enough to know what's not true but you can't know enough to know what is. You're well into the wilderness of mirrors." Hacking one complex system is always in some ways like...

When You Can Make it Win/Win … You’ve Got Something

A late-night long ago talk for Notacon, a once-and-sometime con.

The search for a unified theory of everything in contemporary physics stems in part from the fundamental inability to reconcile quantum physics and relativity theory. This has pushed research toward complex mathematical models such as string theory in an effort to...

Trying to channel the wisdom of the best and the brightest.

Richard Thieme describes a vision of new possibilities in September 2003 for Medtronic. The poignant opening, days after his son's motorcycle accident, framed the work of the medical device maker and its importance for "the human in the machine."

It has all happened so fast. Eleven years of Def Con define three identifiable generations of hackers. (Yes, that's an arbitrary distinction, but it's useful.) The first generation helped build the network, the second learned how to use the network, and the third has...

Ten years ago hacking was a frontier; ten years from now, hacking will be embedded in everything we do, defined by the context in which it emerges. Real hackers will be pushing the frontiers of information networks, perception management, the wetware/dryware...

A basic tutorial for a Kiwanis Club