author
Richard Thieme
b. 1944
A former priest turned technology and culture commentator, he writes at the crossroads of ideas, ethics, and the digital world. His work often explores how people adapt when technology changes what it means to be human.
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Pleasant Journey
by Richard Thieme
About the author
Born in 1944, Richard Thieme is an American author, speaker, and commentator known for writing about technology, religion, science, and culture. He founded ThiemeWorks and became widely known for his long-running column Islands in the Clickstream, which was later collected as a book.
Before focusing on technology and culture, he served as a priest, a background that helped shape the reflective, human-centered perspective in his later work. His writing and speaking have often centered on the deeper meaning of rapid technological change and the ways people respond to uncertainty and transformation.
In addition to essays and commentary, he has published fiction and short stories, bringing the same curiosity about consciousness, identity, and the future into his creative work.