Wade Roush
Hi, thanks for visiting my author page. I'm Chief Correspondent at Xconomy, and since June 2010 I've also been Editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can reach me by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com, or by phone at (415) 796-3024.
In addition to my regular news stories, I write an opinion/review column every Friday called
World Wide Wade. An up-to-date list of all of my Xconomy stories follows at the bottom of this page.
I'm a longtime science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture, with a special interest in mobile, social, and location-aware computing and the creative applications of Web and mobile tools.
I was a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and (for a short while) executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before joining
TR, I was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia, the company that made the Rocket eBook (like the Kindle, but way before its time).
I graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. I've published my work in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
I'm the author of an e-book compilation,
Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade, which is available as a
free PDF or a
$4.99 Kindle edition.
My social media coordinates:
Twitter:
@wroush,
@XconomySF
Facebook:
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YouTube:
www.youtube.com/wroush1967
Flickr:
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LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/waderoush
My personal blog:
Travels with Rhody
Recent posts
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To whom much is given, much shall be required.
Regular readers know that I’m not in the habit of quoting scripture. But this line found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and... Read more »
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It’s old news that tech startups in San Francisco and Silicon Valley are locked in a fierce competition for the most talented engineers, product managers, and business development staff. But you might... Read more »
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Whatever you do, don’t tell Kiip CEO Brian Wong that he’s in the advertising business. Yes, if you’re playing a mobile game that uses Kiip’s service, you’ll see pop-up screens offering rewards... Read more »
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Maybe getting rejected by Y Combinator isn’t such a bad thing. For Jacques Crocker, Ash Bhoopathy, and Rich Lengsavath it turned into the beginning of a new adventure: alongside their own startup, called Lizi, they’re... Read more »
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“The tiniest bit of bot news will attract a swarm of journos,” comments SmartPlanet chief correspondent Sumi Das. And she’s right: our May 3 forum on the Future of Robotics in Silicon Valley... Read more »
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Back in 2008 (exactly 180 columns ago, in fact) I wrote an elegy for the CD-ROM. If you’re under the age of 30, you probably won’t know what I’m talking about,... Read more »
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Are successful entrepreneurs born with an innate sense that tells them which risky business bets will pay off? Or is this a skill that that can be learned over time?
To Babson College... Read more »
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It’s a rite of passage in the software world: Once the community around an open-source application, operating system, or language grows large enough, the creators often set up an independent, non-profit organization... Read more »
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Startups with ideas for improving energy efficiency in the transportation, construction, and utility industries got their first big chance to promote their businesses at last week’s semi-annual demo day at Greenstart... Read more »
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If you missed our May 3 forum on “The Future of Robotics in Silicon Valley,” fear not. Today we’re pleased to bring you a flurry of photos from the gathering, captured in pixels... Read more »
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After a year in the planning stages, a new Bay Area startup called Redwood Robotics has revealed its plans to build inexpensive arms for personal service robots. The startup is a joint venture between San Francisco-based... Read more »
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Morgenthaler Ventures partner Rebecca Lynn shows up at just about every Health 2.0 event in Silicon Valley—heck, she organizes some of them, like Morgenthaler’s annual DC to VC health IT showcase.... Read more »
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The robots are coming—to SRI International in Menlo Park, that is, where the crew of Xconomy San Francisco is looking forward to welcoming a big crowd at The Future of Robotics in... Read more »
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I’m not the kind of person who loves to flip through retail catalogs. I’m very goal-directed when it comes to shopping, and to me, a typical catalog is just a confusing mish-mash of... Read more »
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Here in the Bay Area, we love startups, and we love food. So it stands to reason that we’d love startups working to transform the way the food industry works.
And indeed,... Read more »
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Investors and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area pride themselves on being the first to identify and exploit new technologies with huge commercial potential. And they’ve earned the right to be a little... Read more »
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Part of the reason people like to stare at babies is that they’re edge cases. It’s hard to believe something so small could actually be human. Robots are sort of the... Read more »
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Michael Greeley is no pessimist. Eeyores don’t get picked to run the New England Venture Capital Association, as Greeley did from 2005 to 2008, and they don’t win gubernatorial appointments to... Read more »
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Maybe you’re under the impression that robots are still sci-fi technology, decades away from the point where they might affect your everyday life.
Well, tell that to Jeff Bezos, who just spent... Read more »
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When e-commerce startup CoffeeTable was brand new, the company occupied a table at San Francisco’s Dogpatch Labs, right across from another startup called Burbn. The week Burbn launched its iPhone app, CoffeeTable’s... Read more »
