It appears that Silicon Valley will hold Barack Obama to his promise to consider naming a national technology czar/chief technology officer for his administration, and industry observers already have a few suggestions for the president-elect. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been mentioned as a contender, largely due to his public support for Obama, which included campaign appearances in mid-October. During this week’s Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr threw Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy’s hat into the ring.
