Not Ballmer, ever. Cerf would be good. Also Mitch Kapor or Esther Dyson. Convention wisdom says it will be Google CEO Eric Schmidt - either in that post or another Cabinet position.
I wouldn't mind that job, although the one I really want is director of FEMA. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good for us techies!! > --- > Barack Obama says that the U.S. is not doing nearly enough to create > jobs through technology. Shortly after he launched his campaign, the > Illinois Senator promised that if elected, he would create the > first-ever Cabinet-level post of chief technology officer. > > "Obama sees greater broadband penetration as an enormous economic > engine, much like the railroads were a century ago," says Andrew D. > Lipman, a veteran communications lawyer in Washington. "That is why > the CTO will play such a critical role in any recovery plan." > > Among the candidates who would be considered for the job, say > Washington insiders, are Vint Cerf, Google's (GOOG) "chief internet > evangelist," who is often cited as one of the fathers of the Internet; > Microsoft (MSFT) chief executive officer Steve Ballmer; Amazon (AMZN) > CEO Jeffrey Bezos; and Ed Felten, a prominent professor of computer > science and public affairs at Princeton University. > > http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2008/db20081019_258155.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275978 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
