I have a sense that the shorter jams we are seeing are being interpreted as being "safe". I don't see it that way. Long jams, even when performed by Phish, can be masturbatory and aren't always called for. There is a time and place. While I can marvel at an hour long Runaway Jim, in the end, it usually only stands out because it is an hour long. The band's move to more self-editing is the 3.0 version of risk taking. Look at the negative response this has been getting among some of the more heady wooks - especially recently. The first sign of a significant change in anything is the backlash it gets from the people it affects and risk, almost by definition, is a change. Risk is happening. Some of us just aren't seeing it as such. Some of us are blind to it because it isn't the kind of risk we want.