At the moment the technology is in its early stages, but already hospitals are using it to make tailor-made implants for patients.
The Fed also gets to examine exactly how the markets reacted and can make tailored responses.
But evolution selects among genes, not societies, and if the genes that make tinkers outreproduce the genes that make tailors, the tinker genes will become a monopoly.
The futurism worked better in the upper half of the body, where Mr. Lagerfeld can be relied upon to make tailored jackets, only faintly futuristic when stretched onto an elongated torso.
Recent advances in recombinant DNA technology allow fast identification of novel cellulase genes, large scale production of cellulases and their genetic modifications to make tailor-made enzymes for various applications.
There is archaeological evidence, for example, that the Homo sapiens that coexisted with Neanderthals had needles that they used to make tailored clothing.
Some will be using those tools to make tailored content for Instant Articles, others, including the BBC, which will soon start using the service with its Newsbeat material, will decline that option.
However, the guideline did make tailoring the intervention possible.
Increased understanding of the pathogenesis of obesity and type 2 diabetes, for example, should not only help differentiate responders from nonresponders but also make tailored therapy a reality.
Knowledge about physical function limitations among patients with prediabetes will help providers to make tailored physical activity recommendations, to consider referring patients to rehabilitation programs to increase physical activity, or to perhaps recommend pharmacologic therapy for diabetes prevention.
Men's fashion may be much less formal, but Mr. Greenfield, 82, is still old-school in his devotion to the labor-intensive, exacting and vanishing art of making tailored garments by hand.
