Depth-first capitalist incentives into new and risky territory are laudable, but create duplications of effort. There comes a time when duplication of effort th

Depth-first capitalist incentives into new and risky territory are laudable, but create duplications of effort. There comes a time when duplication of effort through competition becomes idiocy, babel-tower building, churn, "developer-fatigue" (as developers tire of learning 10,000 paths to the same software and tire of being judged for not knowing the latest idiocy). Ideally, the government would step in at this point and amalgamate the knowledge into a standard we could point to. Misaligned incentives in government break this process, leading to capital and human-future burning.