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

Advanced Micro Devices: Playing for Scale

AMD Ryzen chips are better than Intel's desktop offerings, and its Radeon boards compete with Nvidia's, but it may lack the scale to win as hardware becomes software.

It’s Time to Ignore the Noise and Hold Apple Stock for the Long Term

I've made mistakes trading Apple stock, but now I'm in it for my investing life, because clouds and devices are a revolution and you need to be in on it.

Not Much to Love About Facebook, but Facebook Stock Is Still Cruising

Facebook may soon decide the only way to save itself is to separate its controversial services from the potential of its cloud

Alphabet is Making Up for Google’s Lost Cloud Decade

Can Alphabet stock gain if Google cloud remains in third place and uses alliances and acquisitions to play catch-up against Amazon and Microsoft?

Look to Bank of America Stock for the Dividend, not for Growth

Bank of America is a conservative dividend stock, currently yielding 2.34% but with a dividend that is up 50% in two years