Barack Obama is almost certain to be the president who appoints the nation's first Chief Technology Officer.In some sense it is shocking that America doesn't have one yet. We have a Chief Medical Officer (the Surgeon General). We have a Chief Safety Officer (the director of FEMA). Yet, we have no Chief Technology Officer (CTO). No one who oversees the nation's increasingly critical digital infrastructure.Every major corporation in America, and countless ...

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