Models and monocultures: a fascinating exchange
December 1st, 2002[Original Link] From Memex 1.1:
Paul Strassman did a lovely,
polemical piece for PBS about the
risks implicit in a software monoculture (i.e. a world where
everybody uses Microsoft software) in which he used analogies like
the Irish potato famine to illustrate the point. Microsoft then
replied with a thoughtful piece. Both arguments are flawed, but
the exchange is instructive and would make excellent material for
class discussion.