When Monoculture Leads to Monofailure

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Author: Ethan Zuckerman
Full Title: When Monoculture Leads to Monofailure
Category: articles
Document Tags: #tech
URL: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/67625/when-monoculture-leads-to-monofailure

Often, we optimise ourselves into single points of failure. Protecting computer systems from threats around the world is an extremely complex task, and delegating the task to a single company seems like an efficient solution to the problem. Yet we might want to do the exact opposite. When systems are critical to the functioning of society, we might insist that they are redundant and independent of one another, so that if one fails, others might carry on. (View Highlight)