Technology companies use the word ecosystem in an attempt to make the glob of computers and software applications that they've spent millions of dollars on sound as if they can come together as a richly diverse and thriving unit. Some software vendors prey upon the vast amounts of dollars spent on "islands" of software by proclaiming the ability to convert them into an ecosystem, or by proclaiming that suppliers, buyers, and distributors can be networked into an ecommerce ecosystem. Are we so bold to think that mankind can recreate something as vastly diverse as an ecosystem with machinery and software when at the same time we unabashedly label things and stick them into tidy little boxes in an attempt to bring order to the diversity that surrounds us?

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