Doing virtually nothing
Stumble It!In Busy doing nothing Steve McKevitt author of the book City Slackers describes how every company has a ‘city slacker’: they're always on the go but they never achieve anything.
In the natural world there are parasites.
In the world of collaborative teams and networks there are freeloaders.
Critical to their success is the ability to stay undetected - this seems to be what City Slickers do best.
In the final analysis however they bring no value to their host organisations and should not be tolerated by their team leaders or fellow workers.
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Mobile phone users: are we now cyborgs
The term cyborg is used to designate an organism which is a mixture of organic and synthetic parts so designed to enhance its abilities via technology. William Mitchell a professor at MIT Media Lab believes that through our mobile devices we are all becoming mobile cyborgs and its for the better. In his book Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City which he discusses in an interview with James Harkin Mitchell describes how the new communications technologies have overlaid our city spaces with central nervous systems connecting us into the wireless ether via our mobile devices which act as umbilical cords to anchor us into the information society's digital infrastructure.
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