Are you a team person? Are you at your best as part of a small, tightly united group of devoted workers? If so, the future may hold more for you than you think.
High technology, some said, would make teamwork a thing of the past. That’s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers.
But else where, teamwork is very much alive. High technology hassled to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design , and ocean exploration.
Through computer networking, scientists, engineers, and technicians at different places, often thousands of miles apart, can work on the same project at once. They can exchange ideas, try out different designs, and test their results.
Examples? An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system, a new manufacturing process, or an entire factory before it is built. A medical team can simulate(模拟) a dangerous operation before performing it on a patient.
Of course, computer-assisted team effort doesn’t end with investigation and simulation. It now usually continues into actual design, manufacturing and testing. “Computer-aided design and manufacturing functions,” explains Dr Prakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric. “Interdisciplinary(跨学科的)teams and engineers follow a product from concept to production. Everything is interconnected like a network.
Sometimes, a computer-aided effort can extend beyond production. A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depths. For high technology teamwork, the future seems limitless.

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你是小组中的一员吗？你能很好地成为紧密团结、忘我工作小组中的一员吗？如果是这样的话，你会比想象中更好地把握未来。

有人说，高科技会让协同工作变成过去的事。那通常发生在一个人和一台电脑能够代替一组人的商业和数字处理领域。但是在其它地方，协同工作仍然非常重要。在一些领域，包括广告，科学研究，工程设计和海洋勘探等，高科技崔生出一种新的协作方式。

通过电脑网络，经常是距离上千英里远的不同地方的科学家，工程师和技术人员能同时合作一个项目。他们可以交流思想，尝试各种设计方案以及测试实验结果。

举个例子吧，一个工程小组在建立之前可以设计并尝试机器人系统，新型制造工艺或者是整个工厂的工作方式。医疗小组在为病人进行危险的手术之前可以先用计算机模拟一下。

当然，计算机辅助团队的努力并不以研究和模拟为终点。它现在仍延续在实际设计，制造和测试中。通用电器的技术经理Prakash Rao博士解释说：“跨学科的团队和工程师们能够利用计算机辅助设计与制造的功能从概念到生产来跟进产品，每个步聚都像网络一样连接紧密。”

有时候，计算机辅助功能可以做的要远远超过产品的生产。一个制造机器人的团队可以利用这些机器人来探索宇宙和海洋的深度。对于高科技团队来说，未来是无限的。