
AGE: Unknown
OCCUPATION: President and Chairman Sharp Electronics Corp.
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Under his leadership, Sharp brought us the first large commercial LCD panel TVs, and rolled out this year a monster 108-in. version. Sharp is also a leading player in the solar power market.
CON: Despite improvements, moving images can still pose a problem for LCD TVs, which is not a problem for competing plasma TVs.
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