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

Starbucks Stock Catches a Luckin Break, But Its Future Is Bleak

Starbucks may have to shut down stores completely through the coronavirus outbreak, and will need new capital to save SBUX stock.

Any COVID-19 Vaccine Upside Already Is Built Into MRNA Stock

If you buy Moderna today, you're betting on the mRNA technology behind it, not its coronavirus vaccine.

CVS Stock Is a Winner Beyond the Pandemic

CVS Health was already moving toward managed care before the coronavirus, making CVS stock a long-term winner here.

Can a Cruise-less Carnival Survive the Storm?

Executive chairman Mickey Arison has the cash and the contacts to save Carnival. But current common CCL stock shareholders may not be invited to the party.

Gilead’s Cash and the Coronavirus Make GILD Stock Look Cheap

Gilead Sciences rose to prominence with its hepatitis C drug. Now GILD stock is soaring on hopes for a coronavirus treatment.