The long and the short of IT - the week in digibytes

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first to create own his Science Advisory Board, way back in 1933. Since then, each incoming President has established his own advisory committee of scientists, engineers, and industry leaders to help shape and influence policy decisions.

This week President Donald Trump has appointed the first tier of his own advisors to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, including some enterprise tech big hitters, such as Oracle's Larry Ellison and Safra Catz, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, Dell’s Michael Dell, and, er, META’s Mark Zuckerberg. And right on cue along came the online gags about putting billionaire foxes in charge of guarding the hen house.

Mind you, those with not particularly long memories will remember when Trump was making noises about sending Zuck to jail. It’s amazing what a few months, craven policy reversals, and some hefty ...