If we were to string many carbohydrate monomers together we could make a polysaccharide like starch. Regular table sugar is the disaccharide sucrose (a polymer), which is composed of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose (which are monomers). Monomers and polymersMany small monomer subunits combine to form this carbohydrate polymer.Įxamples of these monomers and polymers can be found in the sugar you might put in your coffee or tea. These simple monomers can be linked in many different combinations to produce complex biological polymers, just as a few types of Lego blocks can build anything from a house to a car. Typically all the monomers in a polymer tend to be the same, or at least very similar to each other, linked over and over again to build up the larger macromolecule. Most (but not all) biological macromolecules are polymers, which are any molecules constructed by linking together many smaller molecules, called monomers. Monomers and Polymersīiological macromolecules play a critical role in cell structure and function. Living organisms are made up of chemical building blocksAll organisms are composed of a variety of these biological macromolecules. Staudinger was the first to propose that many large biological molecules are built by covalently linking smaller biological molecules together. The term “macromolecule” was first coined in the 1920s by Nobel laureate Hermann Staudinger. Many critical nutrients are biological macromolecules. Sources of biological macromoleculesFoods such as bread, fruit, and cheese are rich sources of biological macromolecules. Animals obtain nutrients by consuming food, while plants pull nutrients from soil. Nutrients are the molecules that living organisms require for survival and growth but that animals and plants cannot synthesize themselves. monomerA relatively small molecule that can form covalent bonds with other molecules of this type to form a polymer.polymerA relatively large molecule consisting of a chain or network of many identical or similar monomers chemically bonded to each other.The four major classes of biological macromolecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.Biological macromolecules are important cellular components and perform a wide array of functions necessary for the survival and growth of living organisms.His is based on a human design that was all about making their place a great place for the people who lived there.Īnd it doesn't get much more like FutureStructure than that.
The overlord was working from a perfected but rigid technological design. But when the chips are down, and the overlord and his henchman are closing in, Emmet's response is to harness all the ad hoc cacophony of activity of his friends into a system that ultimately carried the day. Technological determinism isn't the only actor shaping the future, nor is the evil overlord who threatens all about which they care.Įmmet begins the story as a rule bound, hapless nobody that has never had an original idea, ever. Suspending disbelief over their plastic form, they allow us to see the human dynamic and spirit of innovation - and even joy of discovery - that shapes the future and stands in the way of a pre-ordained future. We have written about "soft" as the ideas that define and share what we build, supporting the human capital and the systems that make possible good jobs, education and healthy and livable communities.Įmmett and his friends show us what that looks like.
#LEGO MONO FRAMEWORK MOVIE#
The movie illustrates the softer side of FutureStructure, fully orbed.
After 30 years of working in and around information technology, it is too easy to lazily default to some notion of software, but that too misses the point. The movie is unintentionally brilliant in illustrating what we have in mind in the soft category.
Maybe those are obvious but they are there. Technology animates hard infrastructure the same way computer graphics animated the Lego blocks to do the almost unimaginable in the film. They are the stuff with which roads, bridges and buildings are built. The Lego blocks themselves are near perfect stand-ins for hard, physical infrastructure. We'll get to soft in a second but first a word about the other two. If you have spent any time on, you know that we see this new framework comprised of three fundamental characteristics - soft, hard and technology.
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