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Virtual Team Learning

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

In Isaac Asimov's robot novel, The Naked Sun, the characters can't stand being in the same room with one another. They despise face-to-face interaction.

In this chilling story that takes place on the futuristic planet of Solaris, where personal contact alarms everyone, Solarians much prefer to be in touch virtually, viewing one another on wall-to-wall image panels, much like today's teleprescence screens. While earthlings are not yet Solarians in our own daily sci-fi home and work l

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