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

Sell AT&T, the ‘Also Ran’ of Streaming Media

AT&T and Discovery Networks are making huge promises for their streaming combination, but it starts as a huge underdog next to Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and Google's YouTube.

A New CEO Means a Bright Future for Amazon

To build a legacy, incoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will be motivated to raise confidence in AMZN stock and innovate in competitive sectors.

Redditors Getting Excited Is No Reason to Buy Sundial Stock

Sundial Growers said it had an operating profit and positive EBITDA in the first quarter, but it continues to burn cash.

Let Naked Brands Be a Lesson to You

NAKD stock got lucky when r/WallStreetBets launched a short squeeze on it. Now Naked Brands needs to turn the cash from that into a business.

Buying a Lidar Lottery Ticket With Luminar

LAZR stock is worth over $7 billion on the premise that its Lidar system will sweep the autonomous car market. But will it do so?