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Introducing the FS Main Thread

Robert Gilman — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:30:34 +0000

The central story of the Foundation Stones is starting to emerge. As I’ve been writing articles and posts for the Foundations Stones, it has become clear that some of these are part of that central story, with each one building on what has gone before. Others play a supporting role. I think of the central [...]

hOS and the Burden/Gift of Culture

Robert Gilman — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:07:19 +0000

I’ve posted two additional articles in the Tools For The Journey section: The Human Operating System (hOS) uses an analogy with smart phones to identify the part of innate human nature that is most important to understand so that we can be effective cultural change agents. The Burden And The Gift Of Culture goes deeper [...]

Introducing “culture as interface”

Robert Gilman — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:48:52 +0000

Today I posted a video and an article that introduce a simple, powerful, big-picture framework for understanding how culture fits into its context. The framework is called culture as interface. It’s important groundwork on which the Foundation Stones rest. The 8-minute animated video, created in Motion, is an experimental first for this site. I’ll be [...]

Five working hypotheses

Robert Gilman — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:49:12 +0000

(This post follows Who Are The Foundation Stones For? in the FS Main Thread.) The material on this website is written within the framework of five basic assumptions about humanity and the Earth at this time in history: Business-as-usual is not sustainable The culture is not changing fast enough A thriving sustainable society is possible [...]

Who are the Foundation Stones for?

Robert Gilman — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:44:40 +0000

(This post follows The Foundation Stones Project in the FS Main Thread.) Here on this public website, everyone is, of course, welcome. Nevertheless the Foundation Stones material is being developed with a specific audience in mind. Do any of these descriptions fit you? Do you feel that something momentous is happening now in human history [...]

Behind the scenes

Robert Gilman — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:41:47 +0000

Life often has surprising twists and turns. I had hoped to post more new material in the last few months, but we ran into major web-server problems (both hardware and software) involving multi-hour and then multi-day outages. By the time the site was hit with the second major outage, I decided to take the time [...]

Taking Einstein seriously

Robert Gilman — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:46:40 +0000

I have posted a couple of new articles -- Working Memory and The Dynamic Life of Long-Term Memory -- as part of the Tools For The Journey section of the site. This is the start of what I expect will be a series of articles on how our minds work and how we communicate.

New: The Core Challenge Of Our Times

Robert Gilman — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:55:13 +0000

What is the core challenge of our times? I have posted my take on this in a new article in the “What Time Is It?” section. This article serves as a starting point for the whole Foundation Stones project. I invite you to take a look and give me your feedback via the comment form link [...]

Celebrating 33 years … and a new beginning

Robert Gilman — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:48:27 +0000

Thirty-three years ago today, the State of Washington accepted and certified our Articles of Incorporation as a nonprofit organization. It’s been a long, wonderful, surprising journey. I encourage you to take a look at Context Institute’s History and the In Context Back Issue Descriptions to get a good sense of what’s been accomplished. I’m deeply [...]

Welcome to the new CI website!

Robert Gilman — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:06:25 +0000

We are delighted to bring you this new version of www.context.org. Context Institute has had an internet presence for a long time. We got the context.org domain in 1994, we did our first website in 1996, and we upgraded the site in 2000. The old version of the site served us well for many years, [...]