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Should We Have a US CTO?

By Polyhedras | August 26, 2008

At first blush, the idea of a Chief Technology Officer for the US of A strikes me as a good idea. After all, the Internet we know and love was originally a DARPA project. But Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins makes a good case for keeping government mouthpieces ignorant of tech speak. Read his article, “Do We Really Need a National CTO?,” and let me know what you think.

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