Publications

Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path, Scientific American, October 2019 (published in print under the title “Low-Carbon Aviation is Coming”)

Apple’s Amazing New Screen, Scientific American, September 2019 (published in print under the same title)

I Have Seen the Future of Displays, Soonish Episode 3.06, August 7, 2018

How to Fix Social Media, Soonish Episode 3.05, July 24, 2018

Despite What You Might Think, Major Technological Changes Are Coming More Slowly Than They Once Did, Scientific American, August 2019 (published in print under the title “The Big Slowdown”)

Meet Tech-Science Journalist and Podcasting Entrepreneur Wade Roush, BostInno, July 8, 2019

Special Report 2069: Predicting the Internet’s Next 50 Years, Xconomy, July 2, 2019

Inside the House of Lies at Theranos, Xconomy, June 24, 2019

We Should Be More Worried About Climate Change Than We Are About Nuclear Power, Scientific American, July 2019 (published in print under the title “I’ve Come Around on Nuclear Power”)

Welcome to ‘The Overwhelm’: Have we reached the point where podcasts are no longer fun? A conversation with fellow Bello Collective member Ma’ayan Plaut, May 30, 2019

Virtual Assistants Are Getting Smarter All the Time. Can We Trust Them With Our Data?, Scientific American, June 2019 (published in print under the title “Safe Words for Our AI Friends”)

The Art that Launched a Thousand Rockets, Soonish Episode 3.04, May 14, 2019

How to Get Away from Facebook’s ‘Emotion Pump,’ Scientific American, May 2019 (published in print under the title “Turning Off the Emotion Pump)

Machines That Read Your Brainwaves, Scientific American, April 2019 (published in print under the title “Machines That Mine Your Mind”)

A Future Without Facebook, Soonish Episode 3.03, March 22, 2019.

AI is real now: A conversation with Sophie Vandebroek, Business Lab Episode 6, MIT Technology Review, February 28, 2019

When our devices can read our emotions: Affectiva’s Gabi Zijderveld, Business Lab Episode 5, MIT Technology Review, February 28, 2019

Technology Is Upending How Music Is Made, Scientific American, March 2019 (published in print under the title “And the Laptop Played On”)

Deep learning hope and hype: MIT Technology Review’s Will Knight, Business Lab Episode 4, MIT Technology Review, January 31, 2019 (producer)

How AI is changing knowledge work: MIT’s Thomas Malone, Business Lab Episode 3, MIT Technology Review, January 24, 2019 (producer)

Technology for workplaces that work: Humanyze’s Ben Waber, Business Lab Episode 2, MIT Technology Review, January 24, 2019 (producer)

Helping cloud workers cope: Google’s Eve Phillips, Business Lab Episode 1, MIT Technology Review, January 24, 2019 (producer)

You Don’t Need Tech Companies to Reboot Your City’s Economy, Scientific American, February 2019

The Cambridge Monorail That Wasn’t, Boston Globe, December 27, 2018

Weeping for Atlantis, a live Story Collider performance included in the Story Collider podcast, November 30, 2018

The Track Not Taken, Soonish Episode 3.02, November 9, 2018

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered by Brain Images, Flagship Pioneering, October 25, 2018.

When Minds and Machines Converge, Soonish Episode 3.01, October 1, 2018

Making Music with Machines, Soonish Episode 2.10, July 27, 2018

Twelve Tomorrows, The MIT Press, May 2018; contributors include Elizabeth Bear, SL Huang, Clifford V. Johnson, J. M. Ledgard, Liu Cixin, Ken Liu, Paul McAuley, Nnedi Okorafor, Malka Older, Sarah Pinsker, Jason Pontin, Mark Pontin, Alastair Reynolds

Meet Wade Roush of Soonish in Cambridge, Boston Voyager, July 3, 2018

Tomorrow, Today, with Ministry of Ideas, Soonish Episode 2.o9, July 2, 2018

Sci-Fi That Takes Science Seriously, Soonish Episode 2.08, June 18, 2018

The Future Is Clear, Soonish Episode 2.07, February 17, 2018

Chet Kanojia Paints Vision of a New Kind of ISP at Starry Internet, Xconomy, January 8, 2018

Looking Virtual Reality in the Eye, Soonish Episode 2.06, January 5, 2018

Six Useful Things You Can Do with Your New Smart Speaker, Xconomy, January 2, 2018

A Space Shuttle Isn't Cool. You Know What's Cool? A Space Elevator (Soonish on Soonish), Soonish Episode 2.05, December 14, 2017

This VR Exhibit Lets You Connect With the Human Side of War, MIT Technology Review, December 6, 2017

Cord Cutting: How to Get High-Speed Internet Without Cable, 2017 Edition, Xconomy, October 25, 2017

Back to the Futurists with Tamar Avishai, Soonish Episode 2.04, November 8, 2017

Mapping the Future with Tim O'Reilly, Soonish Episode 2.03, October 24, 2o17

Introducing Hub & Spoke, Soonish Episode 2.02, October 13, 2017

Xconomy Voices, Episode 3: Nathan Myhrvold and TerraPower, Xconomy, September 21, 2017

Shadows of August: The Eclipse Road Trip Edition, Soonish Episode 2.01, September 14, 2017

'2001' Came and Went, But the Movie's Ideas Still Resonate, WHYY The Pulse, July 20, 2017

Xconomy Voices, Episode 2: Christopher Ahlberg of Recorded Future, Xconomy, July 19, 2017

Washington, We Have a Problem, Soonish Episode 1.10, July 3, 2017

Xconomy Voices, Episode 1: Mary Lou Jepsen, Xconomy, June 22, 2017

A Tale of Two Bridges, Soonish Episode 1.09, June 8, 2017

Hacking Time, Soonish Episode 1.08, May 11, 2017

Audio Startup 60dB Upgrades Streaming App for Short Radio Stories,  Xconomy, May 8, 2017

Astropreneurs, Soonish Episode 1.07, April 20, 2017

Origin Story, Soonish Episode 1.06, March 29, 2017

Meat Without the Moo, Soonish Episode 1.05, March 8, 2017

Future Factories, With Workers Built In, Soonish Episode 1.04, February 22, 2017

Can Technology Save Museums?, Soonish Episode 1.03, February 8, 2017

Monorails: Trains of Tomorrow?, Soonish Episode 1.02, January 25, 2017

How "2001" Got the Future So Wrong, Soonish Episode 1.01, January 11, 2017

50 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To—And 5 New Ways to Find Them, Xconomy, December 14, 2016

The MFA Plays An Artful Mind Game With Its Visitors—And They Love The 'Epiphany', WBUR's The ARTery, November 7, 2016

Why It's Taking So Long to Fix the Longfellow Bridge, 90.9 WBUR, September 15, 2016

How a War on Climate Change Could Restore Economic Growth in America, Xconomy, August 23, 2016

How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri, Xconomy, August 9, 2016

This Election Isn't About Love Or Hate. It's About Competence, Medium, August 1, 2016

Clinton Versus Trump: Who's Stronger on Innovation?, Xconomy, July 26, 2016

Can Innovation Save Us?, Xconomy, July 13, 2016

Beyond the Science Wars: Stories of a Shared Future, WBUR Cognoscenti, April 27, 2016

Trading Quality for Ease: Confessions of an Earbud Junkie, Xconomy, April 1, 2016

One Writer's Strategy for Avoiding Information Overload, Xconomy, February 5, 2016

Annotation Tuesday!: Jenna Pirog on Virtual Reality in "The Displaced," Nieman Storyboard, January 19, 2016

The Best Podcasts of 2015: A Guide for New Listeners, Xconomy, December 21, 2015

Looking Back at ScienceWriters2015 Via Twitter, KSJ Dispatches, October 21, 2015

Guardians of the Flame: Parting Thoughts on Science, Journalism, and Progress, KSJ Dispatches, June 30, 2015

Apple Watch: The First Wearable Device Worth Wearing, Xconomy, June 5, 2015

Dispelling the Gloom: An Open Letter to Science & Technology Journalists, KSJ Blog, November 14, 2014

Carless in Cambridge: Bike & Car Sharing and the Future of Traffic, Xconomy, August 15, 2014

Linda Stone's Antidote to the Quantified Self: The Essential Self, Xconomy, August 8, 2014.

Global Warming and the Power of Fear to Drive Innovation, Xconomy, August 1, 2014.

Boston vs. San Francisco: Two Cultures of Innovation, Xconomy, July 11, 2014.

Five Annoying Tech Problems for the Next Hot Startup to Solve, Xconomy, June 27, 2014.

The Future of Work, Plus or Minus E-mail, Xconomy, June 16, 2014.

How I Conquered My Reading List Using Pocket, Xconomy, June 13, 2014.

If Tesla Made Bike Lights, They'd Look Like This; The Story of Sparse. Xconomy, June 6, 2014.

Startups and "The Future of Informing": Q&A with Matter's Corey Ford. Xconomy, May 30, 2014.

Cord Cutting: How to Get High-Speed Internet Service Without Cable. Xconomy, May 23, 2014.

Welcome to the Seven-Year Technology Pause. Xconomy, May 16, 2014.

The Davis Dilemma: New Energy for Innovation, But Where to Grow? Xconomy, May 15, 2014.

Can Sacramento End Its Innovation Drought? Xconomy, May 14, 2014.

Soft Spots: Five Places Where Silicon Valley's Bubble Could Pop. Xconomy, May 2, 2014.

Minerva's Plan to Disrupt Universities: A Talk with Ben Nelson. Xconomy, April 20, 2014.

A Letter to the Year 2061 (If We Make It That Far). Xconomy, April 4, 2014.

Conversations on Passion: Wade Roush of Xconomy. Ryan Bonaparte, Crazy Enough to Try, March 20, 2014.

The Missing Middle Class: Jobs in the Second Machine Age. Xconomy, March 21, 2014.

From Cosimo to Cosmos: The Medici Effect in Culture and Technology. Xconomy, March 14, 2014.

WhatsApp, $19 Billion, and the Unreal Economy of Silicon Valley. Xconomy, February 21, 2014.

Aaron Marcus, Bard of User-Centered Design, Battles "High-Order Crap". Xconomy, February 18, 2014.

15 Places to Turn for Technology News That Really Matters. Xconomy, February 14, 2014.

Hockney's iPad: How Technology Illuminates the Way We See. Xconomy, January 24, 2014.

How I Learned to Stay Organized with Evernote, Post-Its, and Foamcore. Xconomy, January 10, 2014.

Please, Keep Paying $80 a Month for Cable So I Can Enjoy Cheap TV. Xconomy, October 18, 2013.

What Is Quora? Seven Answers from Adam D'Angelo and Marc Bodnick. Xconomy, October 3, 2013.

Altius Education Changes Course After Accreditation Battles. Xconomy, September 10, 2013.

Sea Level Rise: Time for a Barrage of New Ideas. Xconomy, August 30, 2013.

The Geek Doesn't Always Get the Girl: A Novelist on Hacking Romance, Xconomy, August 9, 2013.

Santa Cruz, The City Over the Hill, Works to Build Its Own Startup Culture. (Part 1 of 3.) Xconomy, July 30, 2013.

Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple. And Google. And Facebook. Xconomy, June 14, 2013.

Do You Have A Story To Tell? Here Are the Digital Tools You'll Need. Xconomy, May 24, 2013.

To Do Or Not To Do: That Is the Question. Xconomy, March 29, 2013.

Facebook Doesn't Have Big Data. It Has Ginormous Data. Xconomy, February 14, 2013.

How Lytro Is Shifting Our Perspective on Photography. Xconomy, February 1, 2013.

Google Gets a Second Brain, Changing Everything About Search. Xconomy, December 12, 2012.

Intuit Goes All Out to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma. Is It Working? Xconomy, November 6, 2012.

ICANN's BoondoggleTechnology Review, August 21, 2012.

The Case of the Tilted Clubhouse: A Geographical Detective Story. Xconomy, August 17, 2012.

Can Anyone Catch Khan Academy? The Fate of the U in the YouTube Era. Xconomy, July 20, 2012.

In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning. Xconomy, April 18, 2012.

Can Willow Garage's "Linux for Robots" Spur Internet-Scale Growth? Xconomy, March 29, 2012.

Google's Rules of Acquisition: How to Be an Android, Not an Aardvark. Xconomy, March 5, 2012.

Google Transit: How (and Why) the Search Giant is Remapping Public Transportation. Xconomy, February 21, 2012.

Saint Steve? Not Exactly. Apple and the Power of the Dark Side. Xconomy, October 7, 2011.

Pinnacle Looks Beyond Detroit as the Market for its Opposed-Piston Engine. Xconomy, October 4, 2011.

There Is an Incubator Bubble, and It Will Pop. Xconomy, August 12, 2011.

Inside Google's Age of Augmented Humanity. (Part 1 of 3.) Xconomy, January 3, 2011.

Going Out of PrintTechnology Review, April 20, 2010.

Second EarthTechnology Review, July 1, 2007.

Inside the Spyware ScandalTechnology Review, May 1, 2006.

Genetics Savings and Clone: No Pet ProjectTechnology Review, May 1, 2006.

Killer MapsTechnology Review, October 1, 2005.

Social MachinesTechnology Review, August 1, 2005.

Antisense Aims for a RenaissanceScience, May 23, 1997.

Herbert Benson: Mind-Body Maverick Pushes the EnvelopeScience, April 18, 1997.

Hunting for Animal AlternativesScience, October 11, 1996.

Experimental Ecology: When Rigor Meets RealityScience, July 21, 1995. (PDF)

Population: The View from CairoScience, August 26, 1994