Richard Thieme - Saturday 18th August 2012

A WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS: CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE NECESSARY COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Richard Thieme speaks professionally about the challenges posed by new technologies and the future, and how we might reinvent ourselves to meet these challenges. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the National Security Agency, FBI, US Secret Service and US Dept of the Treasury. Formerly an Episcopalian minister, Thieme has also spoken for sixteen years for the Black Hat Briefings on intelligence and corporate security, and at Def Con, an annual computer hackers' convention. Thieme's books include: Islands in the Clickstream (2004) and Mind Games, A Collection of Nineteen Stories of Brave New Worlds and Alternate Realities (2010).

Challenge Coin - U.S. Department of Defence Ð Futures Exploration
Given to Thieme after a discussion on the subject of the UFO cottage industry.