The trouble with monocultures, of course, is that they tend not to encourage self-criticism.

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Monocultures are, after all, more susceptible to being wiped out by disease than mixed fields.

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Therefore, like all monocultures, they all are susceptible to the same diseases.

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Few will disagree that monocultures, thanks to the wide deployment of a single code base, rife with vulnerabilities, is the single biggest cause of the cybersecurity challenge.

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They frown on monocultures and chemical fertilisers.

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In a sense, today's crisis is like a forest fire running through the ecosystem of the economy, clearing out the mature monocultures of the past and allowing a more heterogeneous blossoming of new start-ups to emerge and redefine markets.

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