Go back to your revised Masdar inspired scenarios, storyboards, and concepts. What maps are guiding your work? What assumptions are play in your mental models of the world? What forces could shift your work (e.g., metaphorically tides, wind, currents) more practically STEEP assumptions? Alternative models?

Let’s discuss Peter Schwartz’s ideas while looking at your scenarios.

Going back to my revised Masdar inspired scenarios, storyboards and concepts, I realized that there would be much more aspects that guides my work other than basing off my assumptions, as Peter Schwartz has stated. The STEEP assumptions, which include Social, Technological, Economical, Environmental and Political, would help me a lot.

Socially, it would not be a problem to have a moving walkway on a normal side walk. It is not something that a person would possess individually that distinguishes class. However, if the moving walks are not wide enough, people would have harder times walking in group. Economically, it would be hard to maintain the service since we do not know who would be funding the service. Even if it became a public transportation, it would be hard to make the citizens to pay because it is so accessible -especially to make it friendly and make the curbs less for kids and people who are on wheelchairs.

Although I made assumptions before, this time it was a different thought process because I was consciously trying to think of ways that I wouldn’t be thinking of. Using the STEEP assumptions made me think outside my own experience. Now that I have my mental map, I should rethink my proposal.