Robert K. Lifton, 75, is an unlikely front runner in the tech races. More than two decades ago, this career chameleon was making tracks of a different kind, helping produce Debby Boone's 1977 hit You Light Up My Life. Today he is trying to light up something else. His New York City--based company, Medis Technologies, is one of several World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers developing new ways to deliver clean electricity to homes and cars, not to mention mobile phones and digital cameras. "The market is huge," says Lifton, and he's not exaggerating: he wants to power up the world's billions...
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