But technology expert Rob Atkinson says smartphones will most likely not be widely used in many developing nations because of their cost, and the cost of connected on-line data plans.

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Already, as Rob Atkinson points out, China has been making rapid progress in nanotechnology and materials technology as well as in genomics.

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Rob Atkinson is founder and President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.

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