Marshall Brain

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Marshall David Brain (b. 1961) is the founder of HowStuffWorks. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Brain went on to receive a master's degree in Computer science from North Carolina State University (NCSU). Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company.

He also maintains a website with, among others, essays on transhumanism and robots and an online science-fiction novel on that topic, Manna.

He currently resides in a farm in suburban Raleigh with his wife and four children. He serves on the North Carolina Advisory Board of DonorsChoose.

[edit] Books by Marshall Brain

Title	Publisher	ISBN
Marshall Brain's MORE How STUFF Works	John Wiley & Sons	ISBN 0-7645-6711-X
What If?	John Wiley & Sons	ISBN 0-7645-6657-1
Marshall Brain's How Stuff Works	John Wiley & Sons	ISBN 0-7645-6518-4
How Much Does the Earth Weigh?	John Wiley & Sons	ISBN 0-7645-6519-2
The Teenager's Guide to the Real World	BYG Publishing, Inc.	ISBN 0-9657430-3-9
Win32 System Services	Prentice Hall	ISBN 0-13-022557-6
Visual C++ 2	Prentice Hall	ISBN 0-13-305145-5
Using Windows NT	Prentice Hall	ISBN 0-13-091977-2
Motif Programming: The Essentials... and More	Digital Press	ISBN 1-55558-089-0

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[edit] External links

Official Web Site
HowStuffWorks
- "What if I Shot my TV?" Video of Brain in action. See also TV-B-Gone.
HowStuffWorks "HowStuffWorks Authors"
Interview with Changesurfer Radio

Brain argues in his new Robot Nation series at MarshallBrain.com that automation will lead to structural unemployment, requiring a guaranteed basic income.