The wisdom of their work, according to computer scientists, lies in its farsighted simplicity, designing a set of minimalist standards that others can build upon.
The Bush administration senselessly plans to abandon a farsighted regulation designed to ensure that all medicines used in children undergo proper testing for safety and efficacy.
Other farsighted Geddes designs included those for prefab housing, streamlined cars (some of whose features the automobile industry adopted decades later) and a stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers with a suspended roof that could slide open in good weather — an idea that was realized 20 years later in the Houston Astrodome.
When the Metro opened, ten years later, in 1976, it was acclaimed as a farsighted fusion of design and utility, a system generations ahead of those in other cities.
Last month, Mr. Mbeki was in New York soliciting support for a farsighted international partnership designed to attack these problems head on, linking an African commitment to better governance with a call for greater international investment.
Not every bridal designer is so farsighted -- or so brashly confident.
Understanding these mechanisms can yield better designed behavioral interventions that could increase farsighted consumer decision making and improve consumers' long-term well-being.
She closed both businesses after the stock-market crash and began to concentrate almost exclusively on textile design, working most closely with Joseph de Leeuw, the farsighted head of Metz & Company.
Mr. Mulroy could have undergone Lasik, the popular laser eye surgery designed to correct nearsightness, but now adapted to bring farsighted vision back into focus, too.
Rathenau, a farsighted industrialist, believed industry needed the visual order and consistency that could only be provided by design.
