[2][3][4] Marshall Brain was born in Santa Monica, California, where his father designed components for Moon rockets.
in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1983, and a M.S in computer science from North Carolina State University.
"[2] Brain appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, CNN, and Modern Marvels.
[15][16] Brain maintained that automation and robots will lead to unemployment for humans, such as 1.5 million big-rig truck drivers in the U.S. losing their jobs to self-driving cars, requiring a government guaranteed minimum income.
[23] Two and a half hours before his body was discovered, he sent an email to over 30 recipients claiming that he had been forced into retirement at North Carolina State after filing an ethics complaint against Veena Misra, dean of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, writing “I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university.”[24]