Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn

Expertise: Technology, Biotech, Renewable energy

Education: M.S,J. Northwestern (Medill School) 1978; B.A. Rice University, History and Political Science 1977

Awards & Accomplishments: Tech reporter since 1982, Freelance since 1983, on Internet since 1985. Created first online coverage of Internet with a magazine, Interactive Age, 1994 Co-wrote BBS Systems for Business in 1991, Wrote Guide to Field Computing in 1992 Wrote technology history now called "Living with Moore's Law" in 2001, 2010, 2021 Author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction

About Dana:
Dana Blankenhorn has been a financial journalist since 1978, a technology journalist since 1982, and an Internet journalist since 1985. He writes a Substack newsletter, Facing the Future, which covers technology, markets, and politics.

He has written a half-dozen technology books, several novels available at the Amazon Kindle store, and covered beats ranging from education to e-commerce, and from open source to renewable energy. He lives in Atlanta.

Recent Articles

Alexa, Did Investors Overreact to Amazon’s ‘Big’ Miss?

Amazon stock went on sale after it missed analyst revenue estimates by $2.3 billion or 2%. But these low prices won't last long for AMZN stock.

Don’t Fall For the Hype Coming From Meta Materials

The small traders at Reddit who are buying MMAT stock don't understand its business. But there's not a lot of it, anyway.

Square Stock Gets Goosed as Markets React To Its Afterpay Acquisition

Buy Now, Pay Later takes credit volume from banks and card processors, putting the risk on merchants. Square hopes it will fulfill its own banking ambitions.

ViacomCBS: Don’t Hold Your Breath on Big Gains

Shari Redstone is now in firm control over ViacomCBS, a position she likes even more than the fortune she controls.

Aon Stock Looks Better Now That It Is Out From Under the WLTW Merger

The Justice Department objected to the second and third largest insurance brokers merging, but investors seem happy about it.