The true prototypes proposed not new materials or shapes, but models for environments, from the technological to the ironic.
Such policies could be based on paying farmers for managing well cared for environments or by taxing pollution such as carbon emissions.
Burnham understood the public's hunger for environments that would impart a hint of fantasy to the humdrum routines of daily existence.
When a team pondered the same issue in the US in the 1990s, they came up with proposals for environments that communicated threat and hostility.
Mr. Johnson argues for environments — networks, physical spaces, cultivated behaviors — that "compulsively connect and remix that most valuable of resources: information".
"Physics allows for environments and gameplay situations that aren't scripted," says Scott Miller of 3D Realms, a veteran of the video-games industry.
A growing number of people long for environments that do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial.
In his 1975 book The Experience of Landscape, he argued that most people have an "inborn desire" for environments that provide the capacity to observe (prospect) without being seen (refuge).
And they will more closely match your genes because you will seek out (and be chosen for) environments that match your "genetic potential", whether it's basketball, carpentry or mathematics.
To improve cross-country performance for environments such as Afghanistan, in 2009 the United States designed and began to field lighter (12-ton) MRAP all-terrain vehicles, or M-ATVs.
Hence, CSI-aware resource allocation is not suitable for environments with high mobility.
