Here’s a random list of a few things I did during my workday today: edited a document with four colleagues; added 11 items to my to-do list; read two articles on the future of libraries; flagged about 13 other articles for future reading; created a spreadsheet with another colleague to track our progress on a project; took approximately four pages of notes at various meetings; chatted with a number of colleagues in the staff lounge; and updated my calendar more times than I care to count.

Sounds like an average day at the office, doesn’t it? That’s exactly what it was. Except I accomplished all of those things with almost no face-to-face contact with other human beings and the only tools at my disposal were my laptop, a browser, and a couple of web-enabled apps.

Welcome to the cloud! It’s comfy up here.