Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn

InvestorPlace Contributor

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

Truist Financial Stock Is a Play on a Dying Way of Banking Playing Catch-up

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Merging SunTrust and BB&T was supposed to result in one strong, highly profitable regional bank. It's not turning out that way, thanks to technology.

Palantir Technologies Aspires To Be God Emperor of Data Analysis

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Palantir Technologies is now trying to bring its Foundry tool, meant to integrate data collection with analysis, into the broader corporate market. PLTR may have a speculative valuation, but could be worth a small risk.

Buying up Houses, Opendoor Technologies Is Getting High on Its Own Supply

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

OPEN stock is not the tech play it once was. Opendoor has been buying more homes than it sells, building up inventory whose value will fall with any industry downturn.

Uber Technologies Delivers People and Packages But Not Profits

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Uber has made a lot of acquisitions to increase its delivery footprint, but it faces increasing difficulty hiring new drivers based on its past practices.

Gold Was Never Money, and Bitcoin Never Will Be, Either

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Bitcoin is an asset that competes with other assets, some of which generate an actual return like stocks and bonds. It's not money.

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