Brian Merchant is an American technology journalist and author. His work often focuses on how technology, environmental, and societal issues interact.[1] has appeared in New York Times, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, and the Guardian.[1] In 2023 and 2024, he was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times. He has written two books, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017) and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023).[2][3]
Merchant is from Sacramento, California. He is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara.[1]
While at Vice, He co-founded Terraform, VICE Media's weekly speculative fiction online magazine. [clarification needed].[1]
In January 2023, he became the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times.[1] In January 2024, Merchant was laid off, along a wave of layoffs exceeding 20 percent of staff.[4]
They saw the Industrial Revolution as a program to replace skilled craftsmen with machines, and rose up to defend the old ways.
They saw the Industrial Revolution as a program to replace skilled craftsmen with machines, and rose up to defend the old ways.
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