If a surgeon used a scalpel enhanced with Smart-Tool technology, the real-time sensor on the blade could sense what kind of tissue it is touching and rely the information back to the doctor.

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Training, and especially the trend for greater use of informal learning methods, is driving the workforce enablement groups in HR to hastily ping some social computing tool or technology, and later seek out how it should be integrated with the rest of the company.

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