It's easy for us to assume that technology access and functionality is only limited where we are. Apparently, it is even an issue for the new administration, one of the most technology savvy teams to take office.
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. ...
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes, found computers outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software. Laptops were scarce, assigned to only a few people in the West Wing. The team was left struggling to put closed captions on online videos.
[From Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark Ages of Technology - washingtonpost.com]
