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

Alibaba: Betting on the Yuan

Alibaba stock is becoming increasingly like Amazon, in the best possible way, BABA's margins are declining, but its top line is accelerating.

The Internet Bundle Is Replacing the Cable Bundle

AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon are taking advantage of the end of net neutrality to re-create the cable bundle in their internet contracts.

Intel Looks Good From the Outside, But It’s Rotting From the Inside

Intel needs to find an engineer as its next CEO because it's losing ground to competitors across the board. For now, investors should avoid Intel stock.

You’re Running Out of Good Reasons to Own Oracle Stock

Oracle has fought a decades-long war against open source and the cloud technology that emerged from it. It's now clear it lost that war.

What Does the Turkish Lira Crisis Actually Mean for Investors?

The story of Turkey is also the story of the U.S. shifting its key alliance to Saudi Arabia, which sees Turkey as part of an Alliance of Evil.