Once you design one enclosure with SBB-compliant slots, you can change the function of that enclosure by changing the SBB canisters [controllers]. What we're telling people how to do is design an interface that allows them to change these things.

In 1989 ...their engineers made four recommendations to change the design of the vehicle. Ford didn't do it. They only implemented two of the design changes. The ones they didn't do included widening the vehicle two inches and lowering the vehicle.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Then you can really do genetic engineering, ... I mean where you can actually design an organism or change it in massive ways.

I consider the students partners. We are all going over there to implement systemic change, and Penn students design the math based on the group they interact with.