We live in an era where mass produced commodities and standardization of nearly everything creates useful economies around a product leading to lower cost, avai

We live in an era where mass produced commodities and standardization of nearly everything creates useful economies around a product leading to lower cost, availability of parts, and held resale value. However, this can lead to sterilization of design. And, as the article points out, people will gravitate towards uniqueness in many markets. By taking this constraint of not re-building the product but instead extending it we can begin to imagine the explosion of design that has happened software extend elsewhere. And, I hope, a world where these platforms can be recycled, upcycled, and repaired more readily because unlike software there is an environmental cost to short-lived products.