It is possible that Apple's chief executive has found a way to step into the chasm between the two worlds and profitably fill it.
She stepped into a rock-climbing harness, allowed a team of rescue workers to clip her to an overhead zip-line cable and then stepped into the chasm as a row of young soldiers yanked her across the river.
Ultimately, I guess this is pretty much like that leap of faith in the Indiana Jones film where you have to decide to step out into the chasm.
The Giants advanced into Atlanta territory twice in the fourth quarter, and twice they turned over the ball, stepping fully into the chasm from which they will struggle to emerge after this 17-10 loss.
The concept of video "stores" (even the word "video" only lives on as an anachronistic colloquialism these days) took another step into the yawning chasm of obsolescence today.
He hit a 4-iron off the tee to within two steps of the chasm, calmly hit his approach 18 feet below the hole, and made the putt.
It will feel like a leap of faith at times, as if stepping off a cliff into the chasm of an unknown future.
But it needn't slip into the chasm of lawlessness and despair.
Every time the excavator opened the earth, the eight peered hopefully into the chasm.
Not too close to either of those two danger signs and certainly not into the chasm.
