The Real Truth - Talk with Richard Thieme

The Real Truth. A World’s Fair 28 July to 19 August 2012 A project by Suzanne Treister at Raven Row over four weekends featuring four keynote speeches within a specially designed theatre Saturday 18 August, 5pm 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 them. Clients range from GE and Microsoft to the National Security Agency, FBI, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of the Treasury. Formerly an Episcopalian minister, Thieme has also spoken for sixteen years at the Black Hat Briefings on intelligence and corporate security, and at Def Con, an annual computer hacker 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). This event was part of the exhibition: The Real Truth. A World’s Fair 28 July to 19 August 2012 For more information go to: http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/the_real_truth/