Diversity in nature or technology is important. And it's worrisome that both are disappearing. "The resulting homogeneity and uniformity can offer substantial

Diversity in nature or technology is important. And it's worrisome that both are disappearing. "The resulting homogeneity and uniformity can offer substantial advantages in both the quantity and quality of crop harvested, but this same genetic homogeneity can also reflect greater susceptibility or pathogens. Thus it appears the more that agricultural selection disturbs the natural balance in favor of variety uniformity over large areas, the more vulnerable such varieties are to losses from epidemics." https://www.nap.edu/read/2116/chapter/5 https://www.nap.edu/read/2116/chapter/5 - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/01/aws_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/01/aws_outage/ - https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/2/18649635/youtube-snapchat-down-outage https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/2/18649635/youtube-snapchat-... - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/11/wordpress_vip_go_outage/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/11/wordpress_vip_go_ou... And if we take the word of Steve Jobs on this one we are for a hard ride: "It turns out the same thing can happen in technology companies that get monopolies, like IBM or Xerox. If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product. They have no conception of the craftsmanship that's required to take a good idea and turn it into a good product. And they really have no feeling in their hearts, usually, about wanting to really help the customers." https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-why-innovation-dies-at-tech-monopolies-2014-11?r=US&IR=T https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-why-innovation... With our economy and daily lives so dependent in a few companies, any drop in quality will impact all corners of society.