Background
Marshall Brain was born in Santa Monica, California.
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He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1983 with a bachelor"s degree in electrical engineering.
Career
Brain earned a master"s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University (North Carolina State University). Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at North Carolina State University for six years. He has written computer programming manuals and has run a software training and consulting company.
Marshall founded the website HowStuffWorks.com in 1998 and ran the site until 2002, when he sold it to The Convex Group, an Atlanta-based investment company owned by former Web Doctor of Medicine Chief Executive Officer Jeff Arnold, for around $1 million.
In 2007, Convex sold it to Discovery Communications for $250 million. Since 2008, a television documentary with the same name has aired on the Discovery Channel.
Brain argues in his Robotic Nation series that automation will lead to structural unemployment, requiring a basic income guarantee or guaranteed minimum income. Marshall Brain is a naturalist.
His websites Why Won"t God Heal Amputees? and God is Imaginary reflect his skepticism of a single god that is omnipotent and omnibenevolent.
He has created and posted some widely viewed online videos on this subject. Factory Floor with Marshall Brain (2008) – Host Who Knew? With Marshall Brain (2008) – Host The Oprah Winfrey Show (2006) – Himself.
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Brain maintains a website with, among others, essays on transhumanism and robots and an online science fiction novel on that topic, Manna.
Membership
He was a member of the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.
