Dana Blankenhorn

Dana Blankenhorn

InvestorPlace Contributor

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

Buying Disney Would Make Facebook, Inc. Stock a Lot More Real

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The five biggest cloud owners have $3.9 trillion in market cap because we don't know how to value them. Having them buy real assets would burst that bubble.

Investing in the Internet of Things Is Almost Unavoidable

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The big NASDAQ stocks are powering ahead of everyone else this year in part thanks to the growth of the Internet of Things, a game that requires scale to play.

The Blockchain Revolution Has Just Begun

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

Every asset can be a block. Every trade can go into ledger. Every market can be a blockchain. It seems the blockchain revolution has just begun.

Kroger Co Remains Many Things to Many People

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The problem with Kroger Co is that it has so many brands across the country, people don't know what it is. KR remains a disjointed collection of assets, which is why it's worth only $21 billion despite 2018 revenue of $122 billion.

Is Bitcoin Going to Zero?

By Dana Blankenhorn, InvestorPlace Contributor

The bitcoin market is unregulated, thus open to manipulation, and this is shoving prices down even as bulls continue to insist it will replace dollars, yen and gold. Is bitcoin going to zero? It just might.

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