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Applied to any given domain, it indicates that there is (almost) no foo-etic differentition between members of the population. Almost universally agreed to be a bad idea because of susceptibility to virii and parasites, such as fads. Corporations love it. Go figure.
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The (sometimes unintentional) reduction of diversity in the name of productivity or control.
- inbreeding of possibility space, producing inbred ideas
The monoculture can be hacked. This is why medium-smart people are against world government. Zenarchists and reality hackers can probably see how this is potentially amusing.
Wildfire can utterly demolish a tree farm, but a wild forest is actually helped by it.
See also: windows, hack your dna, meme virus