Flexibility Envelope

This post defines three fundamental properties of Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics, SRCMR and then summarizes and elaborates on some consequences of them.
Fundamental properties
It is fundamental to SRCMR solutions to:
Divide a task among many units that handle the task jointly
This may seem simple and not that revolutionary, but it allows the individual units (modules) to be basic. As tasks are [...]

December 9, 1968 Douglas Engelbart presented a demo of  NLS (which stood for oNLine System), which can be summarised as a word processing system and a web system all in one.
After a few introductory statements, his opening remarks were (starting at 2:16 in the video below):
“If you in your office, you as a intellectual worker, [...]