Does the President Care About Technology?: "Critics charge that President George W. Bush is simply an oil-and-gas man who is ambivalent, at best, about technology. He didn't campaign on it, he hasn't paid attention to it and he'll continue to leave it alone, they say, pointing out that it took him nearly six months to nominate his first formal science and technology adviser. The appointment of John Marburger as head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy was not made until this month. And many other key people still are not in place. Without a senior cheerleader like former Vice President Al Gore, who lovingly shepherded technology issues for President Bill Clinton, they argue, technology policy will languish and the economy will suffer."