IBM's Grand Plan to Save the Planet

摘要

Here is CEO Sam Palmisano's formula for changing the world: Find problems, throw in billions of dollars in R&D, add consultants and an earnest ad campaign-and watch the profits roll in. rnHurricane ike rips into southeastern Texas, blowing jagged tree limbs onto power lines all over the Houston metropolitan area. Like firemen responding to an alarm, gumshoe utility workers packing flashlights and rain slickers scour the region for broken branches as 2 million homes sit in the dark. In some areas the search takes weeks. The total cost of the outage rnruns in the billions. Halt a world away, Stockholm bogs down in rush-hour traffic. A series of bridges connecting Sweden's capital creates bottlenecks rnthat cause gridlock and air pollution, waste millions of gallons of fuel, hamper public transportation, and endanger pedestrians.