"All of us are vulnerable,'' Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a Bloomberg reporter yesterday . "It's a race between a contraction in advertising, which would affect everybody, and a very positive shift from offline to online." Carly Fiorina couldn't have said it better. This photo of Squirrel Boy with Barack Obama and PepsiCo Chairwoman and CEO Indra Nooyl is a bit stale — July 28 — but it makes the point: Schmidt has what Tom Wolfe called the right stuff to lead geeks. Try to picture Larry and Sergey in that room as the co-heads of U.S. technical preparedness for a terrorist attack. Vint Cerf, maybe, if he ever ships a project more tangible than Net Neutrality. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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