About the Author

Richard Thieme is an author and professional speaker focused on challenges posed by new technologies and the future, how to redesign ourselves to meet them, and creativity in response to radical change. His voice, his perspective, his far-ranging insight into how dots connect into the future, are unique . Thieme has keynoted conferences around the world for 22 years on five continents. His work has been taught at many universities and he has lectured at others, including Purdue (CERIAS), the Technology, Literacy and Culture Distinguished Speakers Series of the U of Texas, and the "Design Matters" series at the U of Calgary. He keynoted a conference on metadata for U Texas-San Antonio, addressed the reinvention of "Europe" as a "cognitive artifact" for curators and artists at Museum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland and keynoted "The Real Truth: A World's Fair" at Raven Row Gallery, London. He recently addressed counterintelligence and "social media" issues for InfoWarCon and CONFidence in Krakow, Poland, creativity for Haxpo in Amsterdam, and the future of the hacking mindset in Malaysia and Belgium. He spoke at Def Con - the hacker/security conference in Las Vegas - in 2015 for the 20th straight year. As a speaker, he has been compared (favorably) to Buckminster Fuller a number of times and as a writer, he has been told by colleagues such as John Updike that his work "is right up there." He continues to live up to his motto - "Have Mouth, Will Travel."