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Your smartphone is a technological marvel, but will that always be the case? Next year, the latest smartphone model will be released, with a new camera, better screen, and faster chip. You want that new phone, but your current phone still works perfectly fine, and it seems a waste to discard it. If only you had another option between keep-the-old and buy-new-and-discard?

Imagine instead that your smartphone is smart enough to be modular. That way, you could pop out your old camera module and pop in the newest version. You could pop out the old screen and pop in the new one with a higher resolution. You could even pop out the processor chip and replace it with a newer, faster model.

This approach allows for each component of a product to be upgraded, and extends the useful life of that product by years or even decades.