Brian Merchant
Human Capital
Venture capitalists say they don’t bet on technologies, they bet on people. What if they’re betting they’ll be dead?
Terraform Is Back With a Book. Join Us As We Watch Worlds Burn
Motherboard’s short speculative fiction imprint is publishing an anthology of our best work with MCDxFSG Originals.
The Alleged Scammers Behind the Most Notorious Murder-for-Hire Site Have Been Arrested
Police in Romania have arrested the alleged operators of a scam dark web murder-for-hire site where an unsettling number of people on the "kill list" have wound up dead.
Motherboard Does Dune
Our most durable science fiction mythology predicted the future, or maybe created it, and we're going to talk about it.
The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea
Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.
Drones to Ploughshares
In a near future, a surveillance drone serving an authoritarian state is captured—and offered a new lease on sentience.
The 2030 Last-Minute Christmas Gift Guide
From a Tier 1 Zone Day Pass to see how the 1% lives to the final installment in the Marvel vs Star Wars saga—these are *the* gifts of 2030.
Mothers Against Sinister Technology
A speculative story that imagines a crusade to end the internet as we know it.
Blood Of Christ
Murder strikes a bizarre cult that has rejected the life-sustaining technologies of the future.
Dormitorium
The man responded exactly as they said he would, his eyelids growing heavy, before, against his will, he closed them.