Over at the Fast Company blog, my pal Charles Fishman (of The Wal-Mart Effect fame) offers up two truly startling factoids.
The first is yet another indicator of how weak the economy is. Last quarter, Fishman reports, Whole Foods posted a profit of $1.5 million. According to Fishman, that means the average profit at each store was $64 per day. Per day. Those are yard sale numbers.
The second factoid, though, shows how promising the future could be. In a speech earlier this week, IBM CEO Sam Palisano said that by 2010 there will be 1 billion transistors per person in the world. Which prompts Fishman to ask: “What are you doing with your 1 billion transistors?”