Brian Merchant

Motherboard’s short speculative fiction imprint is publishing an anthology of our best work with MCDxFSG Originals.

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.

Our most durable science fiction mythology predicted the future, or maybe created it, and we're going to talk about it.

Silicon Valley CEOs keep hailing its imminent arrival as they hawk digital goods, but the metaverse was a dystopian idea from its inception.

A viral video shows a terrorist promising holy war on America from inside the latest migrant caravan. It's the story of the year—and in this future, that may be all that matters.

Terraform, 2018.

Presenting 'Cyber Monday', a film that explores the diverse and vital world beyond the mindless holiday.

My son was born last week, right before two historic wildfires hit California—his new home state—and burned whole cities to the ground.

Andrew Yang is running for President on a platform of paying Americans $1,000 a month.

Motherboard is pleased to debut a speculative film short about the lived realities of click farmers who prop up the social media accounts of the (supposedly) rich and (purportedly) famous.

So where does that leave the world's working class?

The best way to remember 2017 will surely be through the stories it told about what might come after