Brian Merchant

is the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times. I’m the author of The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown) and the forthcoming Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023, Little, Brown), and a founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform. We published a best-of anthology, Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, with MCD Books, in 2022.

My email is here, my Twitter is here, and my speaker’s bureau, BrightSight, can be contacted here.