Todd Park Appointed Second U.S. CTO

redletterdave writes "On Friday, President Barack Obama appointed Todd Park, a 39-year-old former entrepreneur and data scientist, to be the new Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Park takes over for Aneesh Chopra, the first U.S. CTO, who resigned earlier this year. Park was formerly the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services since 2009, where he helped bring 'big data' to healthcare by helping create an open health care data platform similar to the National Weather Service, which could feed data to commercial websites and applications. Before joining the Obama administration, Park helped co-found AthenaHealth and Castlight Health, and also served as a senior adviser to Ashoka, a global incubator for social entrepreneurs. One of his ventures, Healthpoint Services, won the 2011 Sankalp Award for the 'most innovative and promising health-oriented social enterprise in India.'"

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Re:CTO?

[Higgins_Boson]

You and I are corporations now?

Sweet! I'm suddenly rich!

Re:Corporate conversion...

[causality]

And looks like people are voting for it.

Sure. Anytime it looks like anyone might want to examine or change that, a manufactured issue is raised and immediately promoted to BIG FUCKING DEAL status by the media. "What? Oh no, don't worry about that, hey look over there!"

Usually the manufactured issue is abortion, or guns, or the old standby of income disparity (aka class warfare, the kind that exists to create controversy with no intention of changing anything because that would remove an issue that's just too damned useful). Lately it's contraception. It's always a non-issue compared to more pressing problems. It's always a completely polar topic with no hope of changing anyone's mind on the subject. The principle is an old one: divide and conquer. Consider how damnably stupid the government-educated* majority has to be to never recognize the pattern.

Until the majority stops being so stupid and gullible and develops an attention span longer than fifteen seconds, it will remain this way.

* Did that hit a sore spot? Good. If you have any sense and any guts, then you would have never trusted anything half as important as your education to those assholes. Going to a public school because it's compulsory doesn't stop you from also educating yourself.