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, May 30, 2020

Early Indications May 2020: Platforms and Truth

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As I write the president has recently signed an executive order that desires to change the status of Internet platforms’ responsibility for...

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Early Indications April 2020: Where comes next?

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Between the coming of spring, a few epidemiology curves trending downward, and some promising medical news, it’s beginning to be possible...

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Early Indications March 2020: The Coronavirus hits higher education

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After what might have been the weirdest month of my life (I was on a plane to Europe on business 12 days after 9/11, whereas now most of us...

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Early indications February 2020 YouTube at 15: The evolution of an Internet platform

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YouTube was launched in 2005, when the World Wide Web was about 15 years old. In 2020, YouTube is now the same age the Web was when onlin...

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Early Indications January 2020: Is info tech's run winding down?

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Happy new year to everyone, whenever your year starts. First off, I send my respects to Clayton Christensen’s family and friends. The b...

Monday, December 30, 2019

Early Indications December 2019: Revisiting 10-year predictions

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10 years ago this week I made a list of 24 mid-range predictions. The first thing that’s striking is how little has changed: Apple was abou...

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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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