Early Indications

Early Indications is the weblog version of a newsletter I've been publishing since 1997. It focuses on emerging technologies and their social implications.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Early Indications October 2022: XXV

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What began as a series of inter-office trip reports inspired by the work of our bluegrass-playing IT guy Rich Stillman turns 25 years old th...

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Early Indications September 2022: Everything Is Different

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As I discuss college enrollment, retirement planning, job hunting, and economic prospects with the folks in my network, it’s becoming clear ...

Early Indications August 2022: What’s the Internet done to brands?

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If you look at your garage, your grocery cart, or your television/tablet, the products in those respective domains may come from different p...

Sunday, July 31, 2022

June 2022: Locating the demarcations

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In the many years that I’ve been tracking technological, cultural, and economic change, it’s become quite clear that 2022 is radically diffe...

July 2022 Early Indications: Actual Reality

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As much as it’s tempting to address a wave of news in the virtual reality market from Meta, Apple, and elsewhere, I’m more concerned about t...

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About Me

John M. Jordan: John Jordan is a professor of practice at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. He joins the iSchool from the Department of Supply Chain & Information Systems at Penn State, where he taught in the master's and undergraduate business programs. Formerly a principal with Ernst & Young/Capgemini, he directed research at the Center for Business Innovation and the Americas Office of the CTO. John holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan as well as a master’s from Yale University, and graduated from Duke University. Prior to entering consulting, he won teaching awards at the University of Michigan and Harvard University; in 2011, 2012, and 2013 he was honored among the best 2nd-year MBA professors at Penn State's business school. A new book on 3D Printing was published by MIT Press in 2019. His book on robotics was published by MIT Press in 2016 and is being translated into six languages. In 2012 he published Information, Technology, and Innovation with John Wiley.

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