Marshall Brain

Founder, How Stuff Works

Marshall Brain is best known as the founder of How Stuff Works, a website he started as a hobby in 1998. He is the author of the Robotic Nation essays, meditations on the increasing automation of the American workforce. He also wrote Manna and The Teenager's Guide to the Real World. He is a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University, where he taught in the computer science department for six years.

For the National Geographic Channel, Marshall Brain served as a guide through three one-hour episodes of the series "Who Knew? With Marshall Brain." The program travelled across the country finding out what happens "when traditional assembly lines collide with cutting-edge technology to build familiar yet extraordinary objects in our everyday lives." He also presented at the 2008 Singularity Summit. His talk was entitled "The Implications of an Increasingly Automated Society."

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2008 Singularity Summit, The Implications of an Increasingly Automated Society