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.

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Early Indications July 2019: Time for innovation?

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Before we dive into this month’s newsletter, I have some professional news. In August I will join the faculty of the Syracuse University sc...

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Early Indications June 2019: Watched and Lonely?

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The processes by which technologies become adopted, accommodated, and normalized (and by extension, rejected, resisted, and marginalized) a...

Friday, May 17, 2019

Early Indications May 2019: The Next Infrastructure

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If we look ahead into the medium term, to 2025 or 2030, there could be some subtle but significant...

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Early Indications April 2019: Review essay: Deep Medicine by Eric Topol

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Note: I neglected last month to announce that MIT Press has published my book on 3D printing, a...

Monday, March 25, 2019

Early Indications March 2019: Facebook Act 2?

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On March 7 Facebook founder, CEO, and majority shareholder (for voting purposes) Mark Zuckerberg announced “ A Privacy-Focused Vision for...

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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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