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Hello, and welcome to MarshallBrain.com. I am glad you have found your way to this site and appreciate your taking the time to visit. I am best known as the founder of How Stuff Works. I started HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and it has grown to be one of the top Web sites in Continue reading MarshallBrain.com → MARSHALL BRAIN’S QUICK AND EASY PYTHON TUTORIALS The first thing we need to learn about is something called a random number generator. This is a piece of code that generates a random number for us. Here is a tiny little program that shows you how one of Python’s random number generators works: Trinket: run code anywhere.

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WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU "GET STUCK" AT SOME WEIGHT by Marshall Brain Let’s say you are on a diet like the Dukan diet and you “get stuck” at a certain weight. You might have been losing weight for several weeks, and then the weight loss stops. Like this: “I am trying to break the 80 kg barrier since the last 6 weeks or so and I have Continue reading What can you do when you “get stuck” at some weight plateau on the Dukan diet HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN SUPERCAR FOR $20,000 + AN OLD C5 How to build your own supercar for $20,000 + an old C5 Corvette. by Marshall Brain. The Factory Five body: It turns out that anyone could buy this body/chassis and use it as a starting point for building a supercar. The cost for the kit is $19,990: The GTM Supercar. The GTM is an all-new American V-8 powered, mid-engined, original design with

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HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain If your goal is to make a million dollars, there are a couple of easy ways to reach your objective: If you are looking for the easiest path to wealth, inheriting the money would have to be at the top of the list. Of course you have little control over this. Marrying the Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Easy ways to make a million → IMAGINING ELON MUSK'S MILLION-PERSON MARS COLONY Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time by Marshall Brain Chapter 12 How would insurance work on Mars? Yes, insurance Let’s try another example. How would insurance work in this new Mars economy? Insurance? Yes, insurance. Insurance is a purely financial product designed to reduce risk, and it is Continue reading Imagining HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS How to make a million dollars is: a) something students are interested in, and b) something I am qualified to talk about. And the talk went really well. So well, in fact, that I have received requests for copies of the presentation. I did not make a tape, so what I have done

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HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain Let’s summarize: “If you try, there is some chance of succeeding.” If you don’t try, obviously, there is not. You’ve got to be playing the game in order to win. “Those who keep trying eventually do succeed.” That is a fact of life. Luck favors the prepared, and it also favors the persistent. Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Understanding YESTERDAY I FINISHED A FIVE-DAY "ATTACK PHASE" ON THE by Marshall Brain Last week I wrote an article about the Dukan Diet: How the Dukan Diet works – The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic It sounded interesting, and I need to lose weight, so I tried it. Yesterday was my fifth day on the Dukan diet. I made it through Continue reading Yesterday I finished a five-day “Attack Phase” on the Dukan Diet and lost 6.6 MANNA – TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY’S FUTURE Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 2. by Marshall Brain. If you have not read chapter 1 yet, please start there. Once Burger-G proved that Manna worked, the idea spread like wildfire. Every restaurant chain used Manna. Every retail store, whether it was a discount store, a home improvement store, a toy store, or an office DREW CAREY LOSES 80 POUNDS WITH A NO-CARB DIET by Marshall Brain If you saw the photos last week, the transformation of Drew Carey from fat to thin is remarkable. In Drew’s case, he lost 80 pounds – and 80 pounds makes a big difference in how he looks. Here are before and after shots: Drew Carey Weight Loss (PICTURE): Did He Really Shed Diabetes Continue reading Drew Carey loses 80 pounds with a no-carb diet → MANNA - TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY'S FUTURE - CHAPTER 4 Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 4. by Marshall Brain. If you have not read chapter 1 yet, please start there. Burt wanted to go outside and take a walk. Weather permitting, we tried to walk every evening. We left the cafeteria and departed through the main door along with a MANNA – TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY’S FUTURE by Marshall Brain If you have not read chapter 1 yet, please start there. Linda looked at me and started to explain, “The Vertebrane system lets me access the entire information network here in the Australia project. It is like a network connection, a telephone, a TV, a computer and several other devices all rolled into one. Continue reading Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future

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MY DUKAN DIET EXPERIENCE (I LOST 52 POUNDS ON THIS DIET Here is a week-by-week diary of my experiences on Cruise phase: Week 1 – I have finished the first five days of the “Cruise Phase” on the Dukan Diet (I lost 2.8 pounds) Week 2 – I finished my second week on the Dukan Diet “Cruise Phase” and lost 5.4 pounds during the past seven days (first encounter with asparagus) Week 3 – A HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain If your goal is to make a million dollars, there are a couple of easy ways to reach your objective: If you are looking for the easiest path to wealth, inheriting the money would have to be at the top of the list. Of course you have little control over this. Marrying the Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Easy ways to make a million → HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN SUPERCAR FOR $20,000 + AN OLD C5 How to build your own supercar for $20,000 + an old C5 Corvette. by Marshall Brain. The Factory Five body: It turns out that anyone could buy this body/chassis and use it as a starting point for building a supercar. The cost for the kit is $19,990: The GTM Supercar. The GTM is an all-new American V-8 powered, mid-engined, original design with

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MANNA - TABLE OF CONTENTS - MARSHALLBRAIN.COM The book Manna explores the possibilities and shows two contrasting outcomes, one filled with great hope and the other filled with misery. Join Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.com, for a skillful step-by-step walk through of the robotic transition, the collapse of the human job market that results, and a surprising look at

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MANNA - TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY'S FUTURE - CHAPTER 1 Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1. Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a YESTERDAY I FINISHED A FIVE-DAY "ATTACK PHASE" ON THE by Marshall Brain Last week I wrote an article about the Dukan Diet: How the Dukan Diet works – The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic It sounded interesting, and I need to lose weight, so I tried it. Yesterday was my fifth day on the Dukan diet. I made it through Continue reading Yesterday I finished a five-day “Attack Phase” on the Dukan Diet and lost 6.6 ECONOMIC THOUGHT QUESTION Today’s thought question is a simple one: What would happen if we doubled the minimum wage? Trillions of dollars flow through large American corporations, and executives are making unbelievable amounts of money.Executive pay has risen by a factor of 10 in the last 20 years and shows no signs of slowing down .Meanwhile, the wages of rank and file employees are stagnant. HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AUTOMATIC STAR TREK DOOR FOR YOUR A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 1,000 square foot 2-bedroom apartment shrunk into 420 square feet. A different way to build a house #64 – Fitting your whole life in a 90 square foot apartment. How to build your own automatic Star Trek door for your

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HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain So come up with an idea. Find something that you can do in the American economy that would make people’s lives better and that they would be willing to pay money for. Build a simple business around it. Start making a profit. What you have created is called a “cash cow.” You have Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – More examples → A DIFFERENT WAY TO BUILD A HOUSE #38 by Marshall Brain GBSI (Global Building Systems, Inc.) has created a new way to frame a house made of thick foam walls reinfornced with steel members. The process is so lightweight that panels can be carried around by two workers. Then, once set in place, the interior walls can be covered in sheetrock and the exterior Continue reading A different way to build a house #38 – Foam and steel HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain If you have not read page 1 yet, please start there. Start by putting some business books on your iPod and listening to them in every spare minute you have — while driving, while walking between classes, while waiting in line, whatever. Most books now come on CD or as an MP3 file. Here Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Getting yourself in motion → HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain If you want to make a million dollars, all ya gotta do is put $5 in a bank account every day. Just about anyone can come up with $5 a day. It is not a huge deal — heck, a pack of cigarettes costs $5 in a lot of places these days. You Continue reading How to HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS Here is how America works. What we’ve got is a $10 trillion economy. That means that, all over this nation, there are people handing each other $10 trillion in return for goods and services each year. You call up Domino’s and pay $10 for a pizza — that is 0.0000000001% of the American economy. You actually play a role in that $10 trillion HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain An entrepreneur. The dictionary definition goes like this: A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. Here’s my definition: An entrepreneur is someone who starts successful businesses. People are not very kind to those who start unsuccessful businesses. The instant you are successful, however, you are a hero Continue reading How to HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS How to make a million dollars is: a) something students are interested in, and b) something I am qualified to talk about. And the talk went really well. So well, in fact, that I have received requests for copies of the presentation. I did not make a tape, so what I have done

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DREW CAREY LOSES 80 POUNDS WITH A NO-CARB DIET by Marshall Brain If you saw the photos last week, the transformation of Drew Carey from fat to thin is remarkable. In Drew’s case, he lost 80 pounds – and 80 pounds makes a big difference in how he looks. Here are before and after shots: Drew Carey Weight Loss (PICTURE): Did He Really Shed Diabetes Continue reading Drew Carey loses 80 pounds with a no-carb diet →

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MY DUKAN DIET EXPERIENCE (I LOST 52 POUNDS ON THIS DIET Here is a week-by-week diary of my experiences on Cruise phase: Week 1 – I have finished the first five days of the “Cruise Phase” on the Dukan Diet (I lost 2.8 pounds) Week 2 – I finished my second week on the Dukan Diet “Cruise Phase” and lost 5.4 pounds during the past seven days (first encounter with asparagus) Week 3 – A MANNA - TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY'S FUTURE - CHAPTER 1 Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1. Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a MANNA - TABLE OF CONTENTS - MARSHALLBRAIN.COM The book Manna explores the possibilities and shows two contrasting outcomes, one filled with great hope and the other filled with misery. Join Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.com, for a skillful step-by-step walk through of the robotic transition, the collapse of the human job market that results, and a surprising look at

humanity’s

ECONOMIC THOUGHT QUESTION by Marshall Brain Today’s thought question involves landfills: What would be the economic effect if we completely eliminated landfills and recycled everything? Large-scale municipal landfills are a relatively new invention. The first modern sanitary landfill was created in Fresno, California in 1937 . Today there are thousands of active landfills all over the United States. Each HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN SUPERCAR FOR $20,000 + AN OLD C5 How to build your own supercar for $20,000 + an old C5 Corvette. by Marshall Brain. The Factory Five body: It turns out that anyone could buy this body/chassis and use it as a starting point for building a supercar. The cost for the kit is $19,990: The GTM Supercar. The GTM is an all-new American V-8 powered, mid-engined, original design with

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YESTERDAY I FINISHED A FIVE-DAY "ATTACK PHASE" ON THE by Marshall Brain Last week I wrote an article about the Dukan Diet: How the Dukan Diet works – The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic It sounded interesting, and I need to lose weight, so I tried it. Yesterday was my fifth day on the Dukan diet. I made it through Continue reading Yesterday I finished a five-day “Attack Phase” on the Dukan Diet and lost 6.6 WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU "GET STUCK" AT SOME WEIGHT by Marshall Brain Let’s say you are on a diet like the Dukan diet and you “get stuck” at a certain weight. You might have been losing weight for several weeks, and then the weight loss stops. Like this: “I am trying to break the 80 kg barrier since the last 6 weeks or so and I have Continue reading What can you do when you “get stuck” at some weight plateau on the Dukan diet HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AUTOMATIC STAR TREK DOOR FOR YOUR A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 1,000 square foot 2-bedroom apartment shrunk into 420 square feet. A different way to build a house #64 – Fitting your whole life in a 90 square foot apartment. How to build your own automatic Star Trek door for your

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MY DUKAN DIET EXPERIENCE (I LOST 52 POUNDS ON THIS DIET Here is a week-by-week diary of my experiences on Cruise phase: Week 1 – I have finished the first five days of the “Cruise Phase” on the Dukan Diet (I lost 2.8 pounds) Week 2 – I finished my second week on the Dukan Diet “Cruise Phase” and lost 5.4 pounds during the past seven days (first encounter with asparagus) Week 3 – A MANNA - TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY'S FUTURE - CHAPTER 1 Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 1. Depending on how you want to think about it, it was funny or inevitable or symbolic that the robotic takeover did not start at MIT, NASA, Microsoft or Ford. It started at a Burger-G restaurant in Cary, NC on May 17. It seemed like such a simple thing at the time, but May 17 marked a MANNA - TABLE OF CONTENTS - MARSHALLBRAIN.COM The book Manna explores the possibilities and shows two contrasting outcomes, one filled with great hope and the other filled with misery. Join Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.com, for a skillful step-by-step walk through of the robotic transition, the collapse of the human job market that results, and a surprising look at

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TEACHING YOUR KIDS HOW TO WRITE COMPUTER PROGRAMS Step 1 – Step 1 is to buy a Mac computer from Apple so that you can compile apps. The cheapest entry point is a Mac Mini at $600. A MacBook Pro is a laptop that costs about twice as much. Step 2 – Once you own a Mac, go to the Mac App Store and download XCode. It is

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HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain If your goal is to make a million dollars, there are a couple of easy ways to reach your objective: If you are looking for the easiest path to wealth, inheriting the money would have to be at the top of the list. Of course you have little control over this. Marrying the Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Easy ways to make a million → IMAGINING ELON MUSK'S MILLION-PERSON MARS COLONY Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time by Marshall Brain Chapter 12 How would insurance work on Mars? Yes, insurance Let’s try another example. How would insurance work in this new Mars economy? Insurance? Yes, insurance. Insurance is a purely financial product designed to reduce risk, and it is Continue reading Imagining HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain Yes – you need to start a business. In America, starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million dollars in less than 42 years. And really, this decision to start a business gets us to a key part of our conversation. There are two Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Start a business → HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS How to make a million dollars is: a) something students are interested in, and b) something I am qualified to talk about. And the talk went really well. So well, in fact, that I have received requests for copies of the presentation. I did not make a tape, so what I have done

here

HOW TO MAKE A MILLION DOLLARS by Marshall Brain Let’s summarize: “If you try, there is some chance of succeeding.” If you don’t try, obviously, there is not. You’ve got to be playing the game in order to win. “Those who keep trying eventually do succeed.” That is a fact of life. Luck favors the prepared, and it also favors the persistent. Continue reading How to Make a Million Dollars – Understanding MANNA - TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY'S FUTURE - CHAPTER 4 Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Chapter 4. by Marshall Brain. If you have not read chapter 1 yet, please start there. Burt wanted to go outside and take a walk. Weather permitting, we tried to walk every evening. We left the cafeteria and departed through the main door along with a COME SEE RALEIGH'S BIGGEST, OLDEST TREES! Do you love trees? What if you could easily find the biggest, oldest trees in Raleigh and visit these gentle giants? There are oak trees in Raleigh that are 20 feet in circumference and hundreds of years old, but how do you find them and visit them? This app can help: https://raleighbigtrees.glideapp.io/ This is an Continue reading Come See Raleigh’s Biggest, Oldest Trees! → MANNA – TWO VIEWS OF HUMANITY’S FUTURE by Marshall Brain If you have not read chapter 1 yet, please start there. Linda looked at me and started to explain, “The Vertebrane system lets me access the entire information network here in the Australia project. It is like a network connection, a telephone, a TV, a computer and several other devices all rolled into one. Continue reading Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future DREW CAREY LOSES 80 POUNDS WITH A NO-CARB DIET by Marshall Brain If you saw the photos last week, the transformation of Drew Carey from fat to thin is remarkable. In Drew’s case, he lost 80 pounds – and 80 pounds makes a big difference in how he looks. Here are before and after shots: Drew Carey Weight Loss (PICTURE): Did He Really Shed Diabetes Continue reading Drew Carey loses 80 pounds with a no-carb diet →

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Hello, and welcome to MarshallBrain.com. I am glad you have found your way to this site and appreciate your taking the time to visit. LATEST PROJECTS! FERMIPARADOXSOLUTION.COM - A proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox. FermiParadoxSolution.com MACHINETHATMAKESMONEY.COM - Your complete online guide to becoming an entrepreneur and starting your startup - Click here to start reading

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"IMAGINING ELON MUSK'S MILLION-PERSON MARS COLONY - THE GREATEST THOUGHT EXPERIMENT OF ALL TIME!" is now available free here on MarshallBrain.com - Click here to start reading ! Join the discussion on Reddit I am best known as the founder of How Stuff Works . I started HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and it has grown to be one of the top Web sites in the country. In 2007 Discovery Communications purchased HowStuffWorks.com for $250 million. I am also well known as the host of the show "Factory Floor

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which appeared on the National Geographic channel. I am known for the Robotic Nation essays and the book Manna . The article How to make a million dollars is also very popular. I am also known as a member of the _Academy of Outstanding Teachers_ at North Carolina State University. I have appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, the Dr. Oz show, CNN, MSNBC, Modern Marvels, etc. I have been interviewed for hundreds of different newspaper articles, magazine articles and radio shows. If you would like to schedule an interview, please click

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Today I am a writer, a well-known national speaker

, a consultant

. I am the Director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU . I am an active participant in the entrepreneurial community in RTP as a mentor, coach, consultant and adviser. I am very interested in Elon Musk's Mars Colony , Basic Income and the concentration of wealth , I work with Dr. Seth Hollar on EcoPRT (a envisioned automated transportation system for NCSU), I am on the board of directors for Dognition.com and The Walking Classroom , and so on. You can find my

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Cary, N.C. with my wife Leigh and our four children. Contact information is available at the bottom of this page. ------------------------- You may also enjoy this in-depth interview, "Marshall Brain on Singularity 1on1: We're approaching humanity’s make or break

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On the coming Singularity and Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Marshall Brain from

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Get Something Started now: On Robotics and Employment at the Singularity Summit: From Factory Floor with Marshall Brain: Who Knew With Marshall Brain (later retitled "Factory Floor")

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MBTHIN.COM - According to my doctor, I MUST lose 100 pounds! So I am going to document the whole process on Youtube, and you can feel free to come along for the ride if you need to lose weight too. I will show you every technique I use to lose 100 pounds, and am happy to answer questions - Click here to start watching the

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MachineThatMakesMoney.com MACHINETHATMAKESMONEY.COM - YOUR COMPLETE ONLINE GUIDE TO BECOMING AN ENTREPRENEUR AND STARTING YOUR STARTUP - Click here to start reading

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It's called "Machine That Makes Money" because your goal, as an

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build a Machine That Makes Money. This web site will help you understand the whole process, from conceiving of your machine to creating your own machine that makes money. More details here

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Imagining Elon Musk's Million-Person Mars Colony Imagining Elon Musk's Million-Person Mars Colony - The greatest thought experiment of all time! " is now available free here on MarshallBrain.com - Click here to start reading ! This book introduces a new socio-economic-political system that aims to eliminate all of the poverty, inequality, hunger, slums and so on found on Earth today. This new system is introduced as a thought experiment within the context of the million-person Mars colony recently announced by Elon Musk. This new system will radically improve the quality of life for the vast majority of humans living on

planet Earth today.

Here is a teaser trailer video for the book - a presentation I did at the Best of RTP 180 conference: ReplaceCapitalism.com REPLACECAPITALISM.COM - IMAGINE A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM THAT BENEFITS EVERYONE BY ELIMINATING THE ABSURDITIES OF CAPITALISM - Click here to start reading

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ReplaceCapitalism.com has two goals: * To demonstrate the absurdities of Capitalism as an economic system, and allow us to understand the massive suffering that Capitalism causes for billions of human beings today. * To define and explain a New Economic System that will Replace Capitalism and benefit all of the human beings on

planet Earth.

Also:

The Second

Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as

Cockroaches

is Marshall Brain's latest book on planet Earth's robotic future and how it will affect the human race. Right now, as far as we can tell, there is exactly one intelligent species in the universe and it is us: human beings. We currently see no evidence of any kind indicating that extraterrestrials exist outside of our solar system. But at this moment, millions of engineers, scientists, corporations, universities and entrepreneurs are racing to create the second intelligent species right here on planet earth. And we can see the second intelligent species coming from all directions in the form of self-driving cars, automated call centers, chess-playing and Jeopardy-playing computers that beat all human players, airport kiosks, restaurant tablet systems, etc. The frightening thing is that these robots will soon be eliminating human jobs in startling numbers. The first wave of unemployed workers is likely to be a million truck drivers who are replaced by self-driving trucks. Then what? Marshall Brain's new book "The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches" explores how the future will unfold as the second intelligent species emerges. The book answers

questions like:

* How will new computer vision systems affect the job market? * How many people will become unemployed by the second intelligent

species?

* What will happen to millions of newly unemployed workers? * How can modern society and modern economies cope with run-away unemployment caused by robots? * What will happen when the first sentient, conscious computer

appears?

* What moral and ethical principles will guide the second intelligent

species?

* Why do we see no extraterrestrials in our universe? The Second Intelligent Species

offers a

unique and fascinating look at the future of the human race, and the choices we will need to make to avoid massive unemployment and poverty worldwide as intelligent machines start eliminating millions of jobs. Two more books from Sterling Publishing:

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How God Works: A Logical Inquiry in Faith

- (Barnes & Nobel

)(Amazon

)"Does

God exist? Using an intellectually rigorous, scientific approach, Marshall Brain sets out to resolve the eternal debate once and for all. With a compelling sense of curiosity, he breaks down mankind's search for a higher power, tackling such quandaries as: Who is God? What are his attributes? What is God doing and why? How does God interact with humanity? And ultimately, how can humans know with certainty whether God is real or imaginary?How God Works is an enlightening journey in critical thinking that challenges readers to boldly approach the subject of personal faith and put aside intuition in favor of objectivity and logic."

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The Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover, 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering - "Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. The book provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline from the various Engineering disciplines, including chemical, aerospace, and computer engineering, from ancient history to the present. The topics include architectural wonders like the Acropolis, the Great Wall of China, and the Eiffel Tower; transportation advances such as the supersonic jet and the high-speed bullet train; medical innovations, including the artificial heart and kidney dialysis; developments in communications, such as the undersea cables and the cell phone; as well as air conditioning, the Large Hadron Collider, Mars Colonies, and more." -------------------------

APPEARANCES

* Things Oprah Wants to Know and You Do, Too!

- Jan 19, 2006

* CNN Pipeline - March 3, 2006 (Topic:

The Academy Awards)

* CNN Headline News - April 8, 2006 (Topic:

Apple Boot Camp)

* CNN Prime News Tonight - April 10, 2006 (Topic: Gasoline prices) * Modern Marvels: 80s Tech

- May 24, 2006

* Modern Marvels: Benjamin Franklin * CNN Headline News (Prime news with Erica Hill) - July 3, 2006 (Topic: Fireworks) * NY1 - July 3, 2006 (Topic: Fireworks) * Fox and Friends - July 5, 2006

(Topic: Kryptonite)

* National Geographic Channel

- November 7, 2006

(Topic: Everyday things: Flushed) * National Geographic Channel

- November 7, 2006

(Topic: Everyday things: Close Shave) * National Geographic Channel

- November 8, 2006

(Topic: Everyday things: Shrink Wrapped) * Modern Marvels: 70s Tech * Things Oprah Wants to Know and You Do, Too!

- Dec 21, 2006

* Fox and Friends - Dec 31, 2006

(Topic: Hangovers)

* Things Oprah Wants to Know and You Do, Too!

- Dec 22, 2007

* Modern Marvels: 90s Tech

- February 7, 2008

* "Who knew?" with Marshall Brain

- March 2008

* Factory Floor with Marshall Brain

- November 2008

* Singularity Summit Speaker * Emcee for the NAE Grand Challenge Summit , featuring speakers such as Jeff Immelt and John Chambers, March, 2010 * Keynote Speaker for the PENC conference, June, 2010 * TEDx featured speaker on The Meaning of Life

, October 2010

* ECE Distinguished Speakers Colloquium, The Meaning of Life

, November 2010

* Graduation Speaker, NCSU Computer Science Department, December 2010 * FIRST Lego League NC State Championship emcee, January 2011 * University of Texas Distinguished Speaker Series, Your Spare Time is Your Most Important Time, and Other Thoughts on Making a Million

Dollars

- Febraury 2011

* Engineering Expo Keynote Speaker - March 2011

* MSNBC

article and Interview, March 2011 * Appeared on Good Morning America and ABC News discussing the Dukan

diet , April 2011

* Appeared on the Dr. Oz show , April 2011 * Engineering Education Dinner keynote speaker, October 2011 * Interview on To the Point (latter portion of the show), October 26, 2011 * Internet Summit 2011

,

Featured Thought Leaders, November 2011 * Recipient, NCSU Distinguished Alumnus Award

, January 2012

* Speaker, Advancing Humanity Symposium at Stanford University, April 2012, "Effects of Robots on the Workforce" * Speaker, American Humanist Association Annual Conference , New Orleans, June 2012, Plenary session, "The Meaning of Life" * Keynote Speaker, FIRST FRC Competition , Dorton Arena, Raleigh, NC, March 2013 * Keynote Speaker, Kenan Fellows Dinner , Hunt Library, NCSU, Raleigh, NC, May 2013 * Panel moderator, Lab to Market Fulbright Enrichment Seminar , Raleigh, NC, May 2013 * Center for Policies on Emerging Technologies panel, Employment impacts of Emerging Technologies

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July 2013

* TEDxNCSU, Getting over getting started , Raleigh, NC, March 2014 * London Futurists panel, Robots, unemployment, and basic income

, May 2014

* Presentation, UNCG SSA, How God Works

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September 11, 2014

* Presentation at the first meeting of SecularTogether.org , The Meaning of Life, September 14, 2014

* Basic Income AMA

on Reddit, September 15, 2014 * Carolinas Secular Conference

, How God

Works , Charlotte, NC, September 27, 2014 * Presentations for SecularTogether.org on topics such as The Meaning of Life, Living a Life of Intent, Seeing the Big Picture, etc., September through December 2014 * Gorge on Manufacturing Night @The Forge

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October 2, 2014

* Radio In Vivo interview

with Ernie Hood,

August 2014

* Guest on the Friendly Atheist podcast: Interview with Marshall Brain , January 2015 * Featured speaker at the Basic Income conference in New York City on Basic Income and the Second Intelligent Species

, January

2015

* Featured speaker at the American Atheists convention in Memphis on How God Doesn't

Work , April 2015.

* Interview with Frank Stasio on WUNC's The State of Things: Marshall Brain Explains 'How Stuff Works'

,

July 2015

* Interview with Jim Beach on School for Startups Radio: July 28, 2015 – Pyramid Flipper Greg Slamowitz & HowStuffWorks’ Marshall

Brain

,

July 2015

* EcoPRT is featured on UNC-TV: Eco PRT | NC Now | UNC-TV , August 2015 * Interview with Nikola Danaylov on his Singularity 1on1 program: We’re approaching humanity’s make or break period

, August, 2015

* Distinguished speaker forum, Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA, "What does the future hold for humanity?", December 2015 * Speaker, Freedm Center 2017 Industry Conference, Trends in Energy Technology, January 2017 * Speaker at RTP180: Best of RTP180, RTP, NC, Imagining Elon Musk's Million Person Mars Colony ,

March 2017

* Keynote Speaker, Duke Energy Engineers Day, April 2017 * Guest on WFAE with Mike Collins in Charlotte, NC, "Automation and the Future of Work" ,

April 2017

* Keynote speaker, ProductCamp 2017 , How to turn ideas into successful products

, April, 2017

* Institute for Emerging Issues, First in Future Podcast, Parts 1 and

2 , May 2017.

* Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Podcast, Moving to Mars with

Marshall Brain

,

July 2017.

* Inside the Rift, The Second Intelligent Species: Marshall Brain on Jobs, Mars, and Technology

,

November 2017

* UNC's Carolina Public Humanities

presentation at

their Sweatshops and Robots: Transitions in Global Labor event, "Robotic Nation: Humans and Computers as Competitors in a Labor Marketplace", November 2017. This is the first event where I have publicly spoken about my new book on replacing capitalism. * Northeastern University's Center for International Affairs and

World Cultures

hosted a talk on the Mars colony, February 2018. More info here

.

* Raleigh, NC March for Science in downtown Raleigh asked me to be their opening speaker, April 2018. You can find the speech here: Raleigh March for Science

,

starting at the 7:50 point. * EnviroTech Summit 2018 , Keynote

speaker, April 2018

* Kotecki On Tech Podcast, Can Software Replace Capitalism?

,

May 2018

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MARSHALL BRAIN'S BIO * Born in Santa Monica, California, on May 17, 1961. * B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York * M.S. in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. * Taught in the computer science department at NCSU between 1986 and

1992

* Named to the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NCSU in 1992. * Started a software training and consulting company in Raleigh in

1992.

* Named one of the Carolinas' top entrepreneurs by Ernst & Young in

1999.

* Founded HowStuffWorks as a hobby in 1998 and turned it into a venture-backed startup in 2000. * Won numerous awards while at HowStuffWorks including: * Time Magazine's 2002 50 Best Web Sites * PC Magazine's 2002 Top 100 Classic Web Sites * Scientific American's 2002 Sci/Tech Web Award * Yahoo Internet Life Magazine's 2002 Best Science and Technology

Resource

* Other Achievements: * Author of more than a dozen books

.

* Hundreds of live radio and television interviews on radio stations like WABC and TV networks like CNN. * Hundreds of radio vignettes for the Cox radio network. * Dozens of television news vignettes like this

and this

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* Host of the National Geographic show "Who Knew? with Marshall

Brain"

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Science on the Brain How to make a million dollars Raleigh - The City of the Future FAVORITES FROM HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM Here are some of my favorite articles from HowStuffWorks: * How Skydiving Works

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* How C Programming Works * How Two-stroke Engines Work * How Evolution Works * How Caffeine Works * How Iron and Steel Work * How Lightsabers Work

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* How Champ Cars Work * How Stone Lithography Works * See also The Big List And two of my favorite videos: * How Fireworks Work * How Skydiving Works Contact Information for

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