Wade Roush is host and producer of Soonish, a narrative nonfiction podcast with the motto “The future is shaped by technology, but technology is shaped by us.” He writes a monthly column about innovation for Scientific American magazine, is the author of Extraterrestrials (forthcoming from MIT Press, April 2020), and is the co-founder of the Boston-based Hub & Spoke audio collective. He has contributed radio pieces to WBUR and WHYY, and has worked as a freelancer, audio producer, and consultant for numerous shows, publications, and startups. His works of science and technology journalism have appeared in Science, MIT Technology Review, Xconomy, and many other publications. In 2014-15 he was acting director MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program, and in 2018 he was the editor of the hard science fiction anthology Twelve Tomorrows from MIT Technology Review and the MIT Press. He has a B.A. in history and science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT.