"The 21st century will be a contest for supremacy in the Pacific because that is where the growth will be, " Mr. Lee was quoted as saying in a recently published book.

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As well as a compelling portrait of an often obnoxious genius, he gives us a lively history of the development of consumer technology over the last three decades in which two very different philosophies, open and closed, battle for supremacy in a contest which is still undecided.

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