Being ahead of the curve can be a problem...

I am pretty ruthlessly pragmatic, and I've often said that based on my own experience in plants, I know where Control magazine is often stored and read: the "vertical library" atop the back of the ubiquitous porcelain convenience located just off the control room, or right near the instrument shop. So I don't have very many illusions. But this commentary recently from Bill Maher brought me up short. I started thinking about the session at Emerson Exchange that Jim Cahill and Deb Franke gave about Web 2.0 and what it means for Emerson and its customers and partners. Maybe Jim and Deb and I are way out in front of the curve, with all the things we're doing that don't fit in a printed magazine. Maybe... Maybe this is just another corrollary to Osborne's Law ("He who lives on the cutting edge of technology often gets sliced." ...or in this case, flushed.)