Now For Something Completely Different: Cringely is leaving PBS and throws in his name for US CTO

Yeah. He thought he'd win the Lunar X-Prize too.

They must smoke some damn fine green down there at "The Pulpit".

I liked some of his articles. But he is just a technology journalist and not even the best at it.

And this issue wouldn't pass the screening the Obama administration already stated last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cringely#Stanford

(Unless I'm failing to see a joke.)

I would be very surprised if a CTO position to Obama would be any more than an adviser with a different focus than the current raft of other advisory positions.

Most start-ups have a hard time defining the CTO role. I doubt a new white house position could be so easily defined.

Please anyone but him...he'd put that $600B into things like hard drives made from metal foil that increase battery life on laptops by 70% (didn't realize HDs took that much power) and they "can spin up, read or write data, then shut down again, all in less time than it takes to perform the same task using flash while being just as resistant to shock damage and more resistant to heat"...riiiiight: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061026_0011...

I think you all missed the joke. He's leaving his job (probably laid off), and wanted to write a column about it. He doesn't seriously expect to be the "CTO."

What's with the Cringely hate on this thread?

Even ignoring his serial idiocy, writing vitriol under a pseudonym is not conducive to being confirmed by the Senate

well his past false claim of a stanford ph.d is going to deep-six any plans for high profile positions. and he's also a supreme idiot who gets by on grand pronouncements that never amount to anything