Brian Merchant is the senior editor of Motherboard, VICE's science and technology outlet, the founder/editor of Terraform, its online fiction outlet, and his work has appeared in the Guardian, Slate, Vice Magazine, Salon, Fast Company, Discovery, GOOD, Paste, Grist, and beyond.
"The One Device is a tour de force. Brian Merchant has dug into the
iPhone like no other reporter before him, traveling the world to
find the untold stories behind the device's creation and uncover
the very real human costs that come with making the iPhone. Packed
with vivid detail, the book carries the reader from one unexpected
revelation to the next with a fast-paced edge and heaps of
analytical insight."--Ashlee Vance, New York Times bestselling
author of Elon Musk
"The One Device is a high-stakes adventure all thw ay down the
global supply chain, from hush-hush design labs to dusty, desolate
South American mines and sweeping Chinese factories the size of
cities, passing through nearly every continent on Earth as it
reveals the countless hidden lives that touch your iPhone
before-and after-it passes through your hands. Think of it as the
manual Apple would never give you: required reading for anyone who
wants to know how their iPhone really works."--Claire Evans, author
and member of YACHT
"A fascinating story."--Marketplace
"A remarkable tale... the story it tells is compelling, even
addictive--almost as addictive as the iPhone itself."--Wall Street
Journal
"A thoughtful portrait of how a piece of reigning technology became
ubiquitous in just a decade, for good and ill."--Kirkus Reviews
"A wild ride."--San Francisco Chronicle
"An excellent book."--Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"Apple's culture of secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in The
One Device....Merchant tells a far richer story than I--having
covered Apple for years as a journalist--have seen before... The
iPhone masquerades as a thing not made by human hands. Merchant's
book makes visible that human labor, and in the process dispels
some of the fog and reality distortion that surround the
iPhone."--Lev Grossman, New York Times Book Review
"Brian Merchant gives us a rare look inside Apple, chronicling the
development of the iPhone with details about everything from the
selection of raw materials to the product's famous launch
event."--Gizmodo
"Brian Merchant has written a fascinating biography of the iPhone,
the most important single product ever created. If you've looked at
the glowing screen in your hand and wondered where the hell it came
from, this book provides rich, unexpected, and unusually
sophisticated answers."--Alexis Madrigal, author of Powering the
Dream
"Brian Merchant is a lovely writer... formidable...
fascinating."--The Times of London
"Brian Merchant takes readers on an epic journey."--Parade
"Compressing decades of competitive invention and behind-the-screen
intrigue, Brian Merchant looks deep into the black mirror of the
iPhone to tell us the prehistory-and cultural future-of Apple's
addictive device. This is the true science fiction of our time: how
everyday experience was reinvented by a gadget."--Geoff Manaugh,
New York Times bestselling author of A Burglar's Guide to the
City
"Fascinating... the author writes in the style of a fast-paced
novel, with vivid details that help readers really understand how
the iPhone was devised and launched."--John Rampton,
Entrepreneur
"Like the best historians, Merchant... unpacks the history of the
iPhone in a way that makes it seem both inevitable in its outline
and surprising in its details."--The Guardian
"Merchant does the important work of excavating and compiling large
numbers of details and anecdotes about the development of the
iPhone, many of them previously unrecorded... Merchant tells a far
richer story than the outside world has seen before."--Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
"Riveting...a globe-trotting history that... lets us hear from some
of the innovators who created the elements [of the iPhone]. A
fascinating and surprising book."--Library Journal
"This is a stunning book-a comprehensive, fascinating, and
compulsively engaging account of how the most revolutionary product
of our age was invented. Brian Merchant sets off on a journey
around the globe, from design studios in California to mines in
South America to factories in China, to tell the human stories-the
ruined marriages, the lost lives-behind this iconic device. You
will never look at your iPhone the same way again."--Dan Lyons, New
York Times bestselling author of Disrupted
Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times Business Book of the Year
Award and the 1-800-CEO-READS Award
One of the Best Business Books of 2017 - CNBC, Bloomberg,
1-800-CEO-Read, Financial Times, Marginal Revolution. Business
Insider
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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