President BO met business leaders to discuss economy at the White House. Salute him for the due diligence. It is also amazing to see the kind of political connections some of the CEOs have. Try digging Eric Schmidt of Google, for one. IBM’s premier grabbed the opportunity to introduce his ‘ Smarter Planet ’ vision to the president, which was to strike it right when the iron is hot. Smarter Planet yeh? For the uninitiated, you know, the planet is very stupid today? Think of the following : Today, distributing power is like transporting a fluid on a perforated pot. 67% of energy is lost in transport. Our medical network… well, its not a network. You can be a HIV positive in one hospital and have a cleaner bill of health according to the records in the second hospital. We call this the ‘multiple versions of the truth’ problem. Our food supply chain is so effective that 48 billion dollar worth of food is wasted just in the US alone. Damn. Our transports… recently my friend spent 18 hours o...