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

8 SPACs That Face the Inevitable Backlash in 2021

SPACs were hot in 2020, but now they're cold in 2021. However, there may be some bargains among them for investors who do their homework.

Popular-as-Sex Zillow Group Is Floating On a Speculative Bubble

Zillow now buys homes and re-sells them. It's no longer an advertising play. Z stock is now a bet that home prices will keep rising.

Plug Power: The Slow, Uneasy Transition to Hydrogen

I wrote about the promise of Plug Power in October, when the stock was at $17.60. It's now at $29, after speculators drove it as high as $73.

Blow-out Earnings Aside, Facebook Means Freedom

Critics have compared Facebook with Saudi Arabia, saying data is oil and that Facebook is refining it through ads. But Facebook is free.

Walmart Isn’t Just Overvalued, It Is Moving in All the Wrong Directions

Doug McMillon has been Walmart CEO of 2014 but he seems to be running out of ideas. Once-promising initiatives like health have gone nowhere.