Digital tools can make the routine aspects of nearly every research task easier, from observation to publication. Computer systems have become more powerful and are used to create models of highly complex phenomena—such as cloud cover patterns. The proliferation of data on the world's networks is making available at a mouse-click information that has traditionally required hard, time-consuming work to gather. Digital technologies not only facilitate traditional research tasks, but also enable previously impractical analysis (i.e., being able to simultaneously retrieve information from diverse archives and to correlate it). Furthermore, it is increasingly feasible to provide network access to remote instruments such as telescopes, microscopes, and specialized manufacturing services (Roberts, 2000). Equally important, research results can be made publicly available online much sooner than by traditional means.