Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of ri
sks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment f
ollows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recogniz
e how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and
thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our univ
erse can throw the dice.

-Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives