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

Don’t Buy Twitter Inc Stock for This Simple Reason

Twitter proposed to Congress that it can police its ads, but it can't police its content so it doesn't even run itself.

General Electric Company: The Fall of the Myth of Immelt

Former CEO Jeff Immelt nearly destroyed GE by turning it into an energy company. Activist investors are giving it a second chance.

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) Still Flawed

International Business Machines Corp. is doing better than it has in years, but IBM remains a fundamenally flawed company.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Stock Is Not Just About Bitcoin

AMD is pressing Intel with chips for game consoles, data centers and even laptops. But you can only come back from the dead once.

Walt Disney Co Stock Can Not Rise on Streaming Alone

Disney is betting its library can persuade people to pay it a monthly fee for new content.