Brian Merchant is a journalist, producer, and author, whose focus is on technology, work, and the future. His first book, The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone is published by Little, Brown. He's the co-founder of Terraform, VICE Media's speculative fiction project, and the author of the Blood in the Machine, also from Little, Brown. His work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, The Atlantic, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Guardian, and beyond.


Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is the singer of the GRAMMY-nominated pop group YACHT, a founding editor of Terraform, the former futures editor of Motherboard, and the author of Broad Band: The Untold story of the Women who Made the Internet. She is an advisor to design students at Art Center College of Design.