Envisioned as an interim measure, it stated its longer-term intention was to "substitute" an upper house "on a popular instead of a hereditary basis".
Envisioned as a cultural palace for the people, free to enter, it was supposed to expand the minds of the city's factory workers in their downtime.
Crucially, though, the systems they used were neither particularly elaborate, nor the ones many theorists of networked urbanism might have envisioned.
Ultimately, the paperless communications network envisioned by Dr Mahathir is supposed to enable citizens to pay tax, ministers to decree, and civil servants to confer without the felling of a single tree.Dr Mahathir doubtless views Putrajaya as a bold innovation in the field of urban design, a far cry from the chaos of Akmola.
The Dome was envisioned as a grand structure to mark the Millennium; its contents were an afterthought.
The Progressives of the early 20th century envisioned exactly this when they introduced the process to circumvent the monied interests most notoriously, the Southern Pacific Railroad which, in effect, ran many western states at the time.
An entire industry has sprung up to work on other forms of identification, such as the biometric scanning of irises or hands.All this may not be pleasing to libertarians, who envisioned the internet as offering individuals the cover of relative obscurity.
This is particularly important because the conventional wisdom about this process, as Mr Hamburger documents, is wrong.At the core of this misperception is the idea that these agencies originated in the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt as a necessary and pragmatic response to the complexities of modern life that could not have been envisioned by the 18th-century authors of America's constitution.
These quotations make it fairly clear what she is plumping for: a system of limited government along the lines envisioned by the authors of the constitution and select amendments.
For example, an employee might be happy and relieved at a product launch, while disappointed or frustrated that the end product was not what was originally envisioned.
And, in a quantum leap beyond the current technology, envisioned squadrons of "unnatural insects" interacting and working as intelligent composite organisms, which is to say, as social insects do in nature.Thomas FrieseVienna.
