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

CCIV Stock: Regulators Torpedo the SPAC Spectacle

CCIV stock is affected by regulators questioning the basics of the SPAC boom, both in how sponsors behave and how they account for warrants.

Social Capital Hedosophia VI’s Palihapitiya Is the Real Professor Harold Hill

Chamath Palihapitiya has lured investors into IPOF stock on promises of good music, but his actual track record is mixed.

ARK Innovation ETF Was Never Supposed to Be a Quick-Profit Buy

Cathie Wood buys disruptive companies for her ARK Innovation fund and investors profit from them. But some of those disrupters are overvalued in the short term.

ARKX: ARK Space Exploration & Innovation Is Another Bet on Cathie Wood

There are no pure plays in space. ARKX initial holdings include navigation stocks, defense contractors, big tech winners and some outliers like Netflix and Deere. This is a bet on Cathie Wood and her team.

Virgin Galactic: Exit the Ferris Wheel

Shares of SPCE stock are down because potential "space" passengers and investors want more than what Virgin Galactic is offering.