Is Washington D.C. the Next Major Technology Mecca?

Claire Cain Miller writes in the New York Times Bits Blog that Barack Obama’s masterful  use of technology in the recent presidential campaign may attract techies to Washington instead of traditional high tech hubs like Silicon Valley:

Indeed, for the first time, techies are whispering about a brain drain from Silicon Valley to Washington. In the past, “they have felt that government is moving so slowly that it’s not interesting to them,” [Matt] Lerner [Chief Technology Officer of FrontSeat, a Seattle software company that recently launched ObamaCTO.org] said. “But with the innovation around the Obama campaign and Obama appointing a C.T.O., technologists feel they really might have a role to play in helping the government become more innovative.”

U.S. Capitol image courtesy Architect of the Capitol.