The result could be better internet access for customers and, just possibly, a step towards the intelligent, self-healing power grid of tomorrow.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Chu, a 60-year-old Nobel prize winning physicist from Stanford University, came to Washington with a mandate from the president to increase the nation's production of clean, renewable power, make the electric grid more intelligent and improve overall energy efficiency.

FORBES: Green Policy

Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.

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