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Who would you want as CTO of the US?
Who would you nominate to take the new position of the CTO of the USA that will be created?
- rms 18y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338507 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=338507 Lessig is my pick
- vparikh 18y agoAlan Kay
- gruseom 18y agoGreat suggestion, but I wonder how good he is as an administrator.
- SwellJoe 18y agoJonathan Schwartz, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt. Not necessarily in that order...and all of them would have to take a massive pay cut to take the position. But, then again, all of them are already fantastically wealthy. The fact that I doubt any of them would accept the position is just more reason to like them for the position--they don't strike me as being in it for the power (or the money). Some other possibilities: Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreesen, and the previously mentioned Lawrence Lessig. There are quite a few old UNIX guys who I'd trust in the position, but I doubt they're high profile enough in the world at large to get tapped. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, in particular (you don't get any more "old UNIX" than those two guys). They received some sort of national award a few years back...but don't have a lot of administrative or management experience. But I dunno what a CTO of the USA would be doing. Since it's a cabinet position, I would guess it would be an advisory position rather than an actual administrative or managerial role, despite the use of "CTO".
- kqr2 18y agoIs the CTO supposed to be IT focused? If not, then we would want someone who has a broad strategic view of technology.
- danw 18y agoPart of the difficulty is that there is no definition of what the CTO role will entail. Decisions on legislation that affects technology? Choosing technology strategy for government agencies?
- known 18y agoWho would you want as CIO of the US?
- MaysonL 18y agoAmory Lovins.