Modularity is next to motherhood, hot dogs and apple pie in the pantheon of unarguably good things. However, for every rule there are exceptions, and in technology, at least, we may have entered the age of demodularization. For the moment, hot dogs and all the rest are safe, at least at my house. For decades we’ve had it drilled into our heads that when we make products modular we have greater latitude to mix and match components so that we can arrive at configurations that, like Baby Bear’s bed, are just right.
