Brian Merchant
Technology journalist and author
Brian Merchant is an American technology journalist and the author of The One Device, a bestselling history of the iPhone.
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About Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant is an American technology journalist. His reporting often looks at the social and environmental side of technology and the companies behind it. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Wired, The Atlantic and The Guardian, among others. The One Device, published in 2017, is a bestselling history of the iPhone. He has also written Blood in the Machine, published in 2023. From 2023 to early 2024 he wrote a technology column for the Los Angeles Times. He co-founded Terraform, the speculative fiction project of Vice Media. He also runs a Substack newsletter called Blood in the Machine, reporting on the effects of big tech and generative AI on workers and consumers.