Then a demo video at Google I/O, then a 'we're still working on it' video, and then we just never heard from it again. Modular tech promises... worry me, but sometimes they actually make it all the way to a finished product like, something like the Fairphone.And I've talked about the Fairphone on this channel.
Somebody else can take it, pick it up. Modular work allows very, very easily distributed and networked forms of organization.But it really challenges, what are we being paid for?
It gets some from-- and that isn't counted here. Small modular reactors are probably a little more promising.
Considering those benefits, there's no question that thorium power offers the most economical avenue to bring on line massive amounts of new generating capacity without adding to Small modular reactors can be built in 250 megawatt sizes and assembled into larger plants.
And we used to have all these battles. So this was the modular thing.
which is typically... just the included Framework screwdriver. I love... that this modular laptop, built for repairability, and replaceability, and upgradability, does not feel... compromised in any significant way as far as build quality... Now, is it exactly as well-built as a MacBook Pro?
So the software being awesome is the one thing, but the second awesome thing is the modules. Because this is a modular interior because hidden around this car are a bunch of various mounting points for modular accessories. There's one over here in the corner and another over here in the center all the way around the back of this center display.
We add new hardware. Its very modular , allows us to expand its capabilities over time. HALO, another MIT-led effort where they're adding additional expansion ports onto SPHERES.
That sounds great, here we go. It's not like modular code, right?
And he had this idea of, wait a minute. And I think that modular approach to product development, I found to be really effective.
it's something that um we started probably about 10 years ago and it's it's a great way to to build the music kind of in a modular way uh because any given day I'll get a report from claudet and Stage management saying that this act is cut or we need to modify this act because somebody's injured so you're right the the music there's a lot of
And then, in our most recent book, The one we came to talk about is the third ingredient that Andrew needed. Which was modular forms. So I'll tell you a little bit more about the contents of those books.
DARPA pumped an enormous amount of money into its urban operation programs, and it created a system called Combat Zones That See. This is called the Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System.
Once we were processed, we were taken to our barrack. Crude and filthy modular horse barns. There were no windows.
Something that went online in 2006, is now serving about four million visitors a month, a couple thousand video tutorials, has really established a model for how you can effectively teach online in a modular kind of way. Integrated exercises to help people check whether or not they know what they're doing.
of what you would consider disparate platforms, a video game platform, an interface on a web page, a platform and a chat command. It allowed this modularity to come together, this novel product. And it kept going, right?
And the modularity of each platform, and how you can pick and choose your hard drive, and your graphics card, and how much RAM, and so on.
And we used to have all these battles. So Indian food is very modular .
Not to mention good luck getting your hands on actual Apple parts for any sort of reasonable price So the Framework is 80-something percent of the quality and a million percent more modular . 80% of the quality, way more modular .
So, just as a note, just a small, subtle thing. The Ubuntu experience: pretty nice. So have they done it? Have they actually built a modular laptop that's worth buying over... a MacBook Pro? Now, the the word "worth"...
the idea is this is somewhat modular so you can update it one piece at a time...
I said this year it's also modular , but doesn't work with basically any of the
So shouldn't we be designing more modular things?
You break the stick, you put it down, and you will respawn exactly where that insert was located. So if you can create a modular platform that affords playfulness, not only with its features set
fantastic so that's got uh modular forms
the first being we needed a modular and integrated design something that could fit all of those options that people
Do people work like that? But you will know the modular basis of most information work. You pick up the bit of the project, you work with it for a bit, you put the Post-it note back and you record your work.
And by making those two somewhat modular and really simple to join to one another, we can identify the particular issue
it's actually was a very modular book as I was writing it.
We're not ready for modular stage, but I don't think it'll just pour it over.
But maybe there could be something on modular reactors, our new fuel that gives greater efficiency.
One candidate is something called a small modular reactor, which is now being understudied at our Department of Energy.
OpenStudy is a very small group that started a couple years ago that is providing free student study groups online where students who maybe are using OpenCourseWare can ask You need it to be modular .
kit the whole thing goes together modular we wanted it to basically be you could put it you know you can basically
Let's start thinking about the modularity of projects, how they can be expanded for more different environments.
So it offers extreme flexibility and modularity at the same time, which is something that's quite rare within the construction industry at the moment.
They're all designed and sold modularly .
But instead, the modular squared can give us the probability of finding the particle in a specific location at a specific time.
that word usually raises a bunch of little red flags in the back of my head. Like, how many modular project... idea stuff have we seen... get presented and then never come out? Like Project Ara; you remember Phonebloks, that one viral promo video?
It gets some from-- and that isn't counted here. And they have this 70-megawatt floating small modular reactor power plant which has recently been deployed to Murmansk.
looking to trial before Triagomy is launched with other modular construction systems.
And then the later sections are much more modular .
docking, perching, conducting guest science, carry platforms. Something we learned from SPHERES was it's important to be modular , extensible, and new things can get added on to it. Current robot design-- roughly 12 by 12 by 12 inches, 12.5 inches, cubed.
in something very elementary. So for example, modular forms is rooted in just infinite series. Just infinite sums. And infinite sums, that theory is rooted in finite sums, which is just addition.
And this is a great example of what a modular platform with unrestricted information can do, and did do in this case.
And so what came out was this Ames modular common bus concept.
And it showed how this system could be--was a modular system--could be tailored to different needs in different spaces.
It's not that there's any sort of crazy bleeding edge tech in this car that's impossible to replicate. Obviously the software is really good and the modularity and some of the features are kinda sick and we haven't seen them before. But like if you took this car apart, you wouldn't find anything inside any like bleeding edge battery tech or anything that's impossible to replicate.
And then what is the way in which we'll modularly figure out who needs to belong as part of our tribe?
toolbox which is called the Mesa which is modularized equipment stowage