Think of the Social Cyborg as a human-computer hybrid that belongs to a socially networked hive. Then think about the implications for talent development of this new species in the workforce.
By Joe Campbell, Director of Global Talent Development, Nike Retail, and William Finegan, VP, Knowledge Management Solutions, General Physics Corporation, written exclusively for Trainingmagazine
OK, I admit it. I enjoy sci-fi movies and am intrigued by both benign robots such as Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 and the destroy-everything-in-my-path Terminators. So my creative antennae started vibrating when Nike Global Talent Director Joe Campbell and General Physics Corp. VP of Knowledge Management Solutions William Finegan proposed writing an exclusive story for Training magazine headlined, “Dawn of the Social Cyborg.”
By Lorri Freifeld
OK, I admit it. I enjoy sci-fi movies and am intrigued by both benign robots such as Star Wars’ C-3PO and R2-D2 and the destroy-everything-in-my-path Terminators. So my creative antennae started vibrating when Nike Global Talent Director Joe Campbell and General Physics Corp. VP of Knowledge Management Solutions William Finegan proposed writing an exclusive story for Training magazine headlined, “Dawn of the Social Cyborg.”