Imagine spending an afternoon at the laptop working on your latest project while sharing a great new Sixties playlist with your old high school buddy in Singapore, surfing the Internet together looking for information on a presentation with your colleague in Stockholm, and watching your favourite tv show with your sister in Seattle. After dinner, you head out to the soccer field and, with your video phone trained on your daughter as she approaches the net, your mother on the other side of the city watches live as her granddaughter scores her first goal. Back at home, you relax with your spouse listening to the smooth sounds of your favourite late-night deejay, a guy who owns a jazz bar downtown and always seems to know just what to play when it’s dark outside.