Dispatch From Denver: High-Tech Dead Zone
For eight years "technology has really been a dead zone in the White House," venture capitalist Julius Genachowski said at a Tuesday gathering of high-tech thought leaders in Denver. The Rock Creek Ventures founder, who serves as Sen. Barack Obama's technology adviser, said the problem has not just been the lack of a government-wide chief technology officer, "but an absence of those who woke up every day and thought about issues and were available for people… who had ideas and concerns."
"There's a lot to do to course correct from where we are," Genachowski said. The CTO proposal from the Obama camp is "a dramatic way to signal that the next administration would be one that takes tech seriously," he said. Additionally, he argued that science leadership has been lacking under President Bush. "This has been an administration that has treated science as anything other than science," Genachowski said.
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