What Are the Implications of a Real-Time, Connected President?
January 25th, 2010 admin
A profile of President Barack Obama that appeared today in the Washington Post, as part of a retrospective of his first year in office, raises some interesting questions about what kind of man he is, and how he might differ from his predecessors. Among other things, the story includes the rather staggering fact that he is the first U.S. President to have Internet access at his desk, and the first to converse regularly via e-mail (his much-reported dedication to his BlackBerry was one of the first hurdles the new administration had to clear). And what does…
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