wife Shirley in 1983, merging their respective families to have a total of seven children. Technology commentator and author In the early 1980s Thieme became acquainted with computers, at first interested in how they could apply to spirituality and religious organizations. While still in the priesthood, he began writing about technology and culture, including the spiritual dimension of technology, for example in his essay "Computer applications for spirituality, the transformation of religious experience." In 1993 Thieme left the priesthood to pursue a full-time career of professional speaking and writing, founding his own company, LifeWorks (changed in 1996 to ThiemeWorks), and working with clients such as Arthur Andersen, Allstate Insurance, General Electric, the National Security Agency, Microsoft, and the United States Department of the Treasury. In the mid-1990s, Thieme started writing a monthly online column, "Islands in the Clickstream". It began as emails and then grew into a mailing list, website, and syndicated column. Thieme gained a reputation as an "online pundit of hacker culture." In 2004 a collection of 144 of his essays were published in the book Islands in the Clickstream. Regarded as a member of the "cyber avant-garde", Thieme has spoken for nearly two decades, since the mid-1990s, at the Def Con and Blackhat Briefings security conferences, focusing on the impact of new technologies on individuals and organizational structures, with an emphasis on security and intelligence, and he has become somewhat of a "father figure" to many in the hacker subculture. In 2010, Thieme published Mind Games, which collected the various works of fiction he'd published in different locations into one place. In 2012, he contributed to the non-fiction book UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry, which examines the government's treatment of UFO reports, going back to World War II. The book was praised by the magazine Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries for good sourcing, and recommended as "a useful resource for the study of a controversial topic". Works Nonfiction books (contributor) Selected fiction Contributed chapters The Changing Context of Intelligence and Ethics: Enabling Technologies as Transformational Engines in the proceedings of the New Paradigms for Security Workshop (2008) and in the Ethical Spectacle (spectacle.org) as "Changing Contexts of Security and Ethics: You Can’t Have One Without the Other" Selected articles In Search of the Grail Wired Magazine, issue 3.07, July 1995 Bladerunner future view Everything Toronto NOW, 1997 Dreams Engineers Have CMC Magazine, January 1997 Prime