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.

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Early Indications July 2012: The Media Beast

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Those of you who have read this newsletter for a while know that it has, nominally anyway, a technology focus. While the current number ma...

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Early Indications May 2012: The limits of consumerism

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In 1968, a young reporter named Joe McGinnis covered the presidential campaign of eventual winner Richard Nixon. Nixon was determined to ...

Early Indications June 2012 Review essay: Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

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In his masterful reframing of the history of science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , Thomas Kuhn introduced the notion of a parad...

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

April 2012 Early Indications: The Robotic Moment

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Everywhere I look, it seems, all I see are robots. Not literally, but while the Apple narrative consumes lots of headline space, there's...

Saturday, March 31, 2012

March 2012 Early Indications II: The new tech landscape

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First things first: I'm pleased to announce that John Wiley has just published my book, Information, Technology, and Innovation . The to...

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

March 2012 Early Indications I: Financial oddities of tech companies

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Three data points start this exploration: 1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is moving the entire S&P 500: "the fourth-quarter ...

Monday, February 06, 2012

Early Indications February 2012 I: Thoughts on video and pedagogy

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It's been fascinating to see how fast the phrase "flipping the classroom" has come into discussion after Sal Khan used it in h...

Thursday, December 29, 2011

December 2011 Early Indications: Immigration and entrepreneurship

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In our time of economic stagnation, attention on the part of many political figures is turning to the question of immigration. Presidential ...

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

November 2011 Early Indications: The State of Online Music

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The past 20 years have been tumultuous, to say the least, for the recording industry. From a time when old formats (the LP and cassette) wer...

Monday, October 31, 2011

October 2011 Early Indications: Heroes

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Watching the public reaction to the death of Steve Jobs has been a fascinating exercise. The flowers, poems, tributes, and now biography sa...

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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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