I guess I'm seeing more like a huge swath of farmland growing a monoculture for export, versus the same land being used as a patchwork of different crops based on the various farmers' tastes and relationships with their neighbors. The latter is more likely to change gradually as the climate and the needs of the people around it change, while the former is prone to changing all at once, perhaps unexpectedly.

People's ideas about how their technology should serve them will change over time. I don't want to have to overthrow the old internet before we can try something new, I want it to grow with us--the parts that aren't serving us die off, the parts that address new challenges flourish. If its all one thing, subject to one set of rules, that doesn't happen.