i drive through this plant everyday while going to work. their parking lot is always full. really feel bad for the people who worked there. but this is the life for people like us who are engineers and develop technology. the fact is "it get better and will ultimately replace the primitives".

not a bad idea. we've seen buildings have spring base. I can finally think about owning a house on a beach during summer and on mountain in winter.

I think Ethernet is going to take over the data traffic for large corporates and client connections. However, there still exists applications worth multi billion $ that can absolutely not use such a horrible non-reliable protocol and will continue to use serial/profibus communications.