| > I have to ask - by "diverse", do you mean "different people from
different backgrounds who have different viewpoints"? Yes, people and institutions, and technologies. What gives security is something like "hybrid vigour" obtained by the
whole system because it has evolutionary resilience (it's survivable,
at least in part, to the greatest range of possible threats) Parts of a resilient system can even be in moderate tension as they
keep a check on each other. For examples; it would be stronger to have both centralised and
distributed philosophies represented; it would be good to have a
mixture of public and private funding models in operation; small and
large entities capable of agile innovation, and reliable scale. That makes it hard for a malevolent or erroneous force to infiltrate
and take out the whole barrel of apples. Of course, diversity of gender, religion, race, age, political leaning
and wealth tend to make a more interesting and vibrant workplace, but
that's not primarily what I am saying. |