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This
is a term not used by others. Lets compare images or scenarios of the future to
a building and its look and feel. The basic building consists of steel, concrete,
structural integrity (this is scaffolding) and a scenario must build on plausible
trends and issues. But, the building can change very much, by altering the skin
or exterior, the rooms and types of communications cables or lighting, and the
things that make a building be useful to the occupants. The scenario likewise
can has basic themes that might be common to other scenarios, but what makes them
different is how you put them together and how you use them (just like in the
building). You can personalize the scenario to the situation you want to explore,
but still retain the basic "scaffolding" of what drives the future.
This is important to understand.
Focus on the major underlying issues about the future and put forth new options
that build on this "scaffolding". It will be easier to build the scenarios
and they will have more meaning.
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Prepared by Roger L. Caldwell