Articles

Selected articles, book reviews, and interviews through the years.

Hacker Generations

By Richard Thieme This article was published simultaneously in the program for Def Con 11 (August 2003), on the hactivismo and Linux World (Australia) web sites, and in the Dutch information security magazine Informatiebeveiliging which is published by Genootschap...

A Review of “Intelligence” by Susan Hasler

Intelligence by Susan Hasler (Thomas Dunne Books. St. Martin’s Press: New York 2010) A review by Richard Thieme There is enough white-hot rage in this book to steam a skunk. Take that as a compliment. Twenty-one years at the CIA in diverse capacities would generate...

Straight Talk on Useability

Straight Talk I write an column called “Islands in the Clickstream” that is disseminated over the Internet. It’s about our interaction with new technologies and the larger issues of our lives that they raise. One reader wrote that more and more of my columns were...

We Are the Freedom People: An Interview with Jennifer Granick

We’re the Freedom People March 2001 An Interview with  WITH JENNIFER GRANICK Attorney Jennifer Granick has made a career out of defending the "little guys"--a mission that takes on added dimension in her new post at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and...

Computer Power and the Power of God

originally published in The Christian Century Computer Power and the Power of God by Richard Thieme Four years ago, I wrote an essay on computer applications for spirituality. As I discussed specific applications, I realized that something more essential than the...

Computer Applications for Spirituality

By Richard Thieme This formal theological essay was originally written in 1988. It was quite dated when published by the Anglican Theological Review in 1993. The transition from a culture created by the technology of print to one created by electronic processing of...

The Future of Networks: the Future of the World

By Richard Thieme I am not a futurist, but I take solace in the knowledge that most futurists aren't either. Futurists usually describe the present, not the future. Since ninety-five per cent of us haven't arrived at the present yet, it sounds like the future. To talk...

It’s True What They Say About Aging

It's True What They Say About Aging by Richard Thieme There are lots of funny stories about the erosion of physical and mental processes as we age, and it's true that when I meet old friends near my age (73) or older, we often spend the first half of the conversation...

The Stock Market, UFOs and Religious Experience

The Stock Market, UFOs and Religious Experience reflections on a speech I have given for investment analysts,  religious seekers, and other interested parties ... As a consultant and public speaker, I address a variety of issues: leadership, the uses of power, and the...

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