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.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Early Indications September 2018: Why can’t your organization innovate like DARPA?

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Following up on last month’s newsletter, which asked who was going to generate the big-scale innovations required for a growing ...

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Early Indications August 2018: The Next Big Innovation?

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Few books have stuck with me the way Geoffrey West’s Scale (reviewed here last summer) did. I don’t fully buy the book’s argument for the a...

Sunday, July 22, 2018

Early Indications June 2018: The Future of Home Entertainment

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In the grand scheme of things, “home entertainment” of the electronic variety is a very young phenomenon. Radio is only about 100 years old...

Early Indications July 2018: Tech and the US national parks

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Over the past two summers I’ve had the good fortune to hike in eight of the western US national parks. This is a “bucket list” item for m...

Monday, April 30, 2018

Early Indications April 2018: Food as economic engine

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It’s tough to get very excited about Silicon Valley these days. Very few startups sound as though they’re focused on solving important prob...

Friday, March 30, 2018

Early Indications March 2018: 5 surprises in 3D printing

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I recently submitted a book manuscript to MIT Press trying to give an intelligent layperson an overview of 3D printing and additive manufac...

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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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