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Marshall Brain

Marshall Brain is the author of The Day You Discard Your Body, Manna and the founder of HowStuffWorks.com. He is known for his book for teenagers entitled The Teenager’s Guide to the Real World. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company.


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Robotic Nation

Score One for the Robo-Tutors

How robots eliminate labor unrest

The problem with robotic drones

Robots creating scientific hypotheses

Robots will soon know the location of every car



Books


Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future by Marshall Brain (2012)

Que Pasaria Si…? by Marshall Brain, El Equipo Howstuffworks (2003)

Manna by Marshall Brain (2002)

Marshall Brain’s MORE How STUFF Works by Marshall Brain (2002)

What If? by Marshall Brain (2002)

Marshall Brain’s How Stuff Works : How Much Does the Earth Weigh by Marshall Brain (2001)

Marshall Brain’s How Stuff Works by Marshall Brain (2001)

Microsoft Technology: Networking, Concepts, Tools by Shay Woodard, et al (1998)

The Teenager’s Guide to the Real World by Marshall Brain (1997)


Articles


"MANNA (chapter 1)"   Marshall Brain  Mar 21, 2012

"How Medical Marijuana Works"   Belleville News-Democrat   Mar 19, 2009

"How the Keating scandal worked"   BrainStuff  Oct 7, 2008

"How to solve global warming conflict"   Brainstuff  Feb 26, 2008

"Can your mind control your weight and blood pressure?"   How Stuff Works  Jan 4, 2008

"How Uploading Works"   Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology, 1(2), Spring 2007  Apr 9, 2007

"How caffeine works"   How Stuff Works  Mar 22, 2007

"Why Our Emerging Robotic Nation Needs a Basic Income Guarantee"   Robotic Nation  Mar 9, 2007

"Robots and Jobs"   Robotic Nation  Jan 3, 2007

"Will my kids be immortal?"   Marshall Brain's Blog  Sep 18, 2006

"Funding Robotic Freedom"   Marshall Brain's Blog  May 11, 2006

"The size of the human population"   Marshall Brain's Blog  Apr 7, 2006

"Intelligent Design Made Mankind?"   Excerpt from Why Does God Hate Amputees?  Nov 17, 2005

"Why Does God Hate Amputees?"   whydoesgodhateamputees.com  Sep 1, 2005


Recent Multimedia


Robotics and Employment   2012-03-21

The Singularity Film   2009-08-13

The Implications Of An Increasingly Automated Economy   2009-01-03

How Uploading Works   2008-12-07

How Nanotechnology Works   2008-11-07

Marshall Brain on Something You Should Know   2006-08-31

Marshall Bran explains the DARPA Robocar Challenge   2006-08-31


News


Brain Makes Splash With Structural Unemployment Message at Singularity Summit 08 (Oct 26, 2008)

Marshall featured in NC newspaper (Jul 30, 2006)


Past Appearances


Marshall Brain and Ben Goertzel on the “AI Uprising” (Science Channel - Nov 03, 2010)

Brain, Goertzel @ Singularity Summit 2008 (San Jose, CA, USA - Oct 25, 2008)

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