Explorers Foundation
version 1.6, 27 November 2004

We believe that enterprise devoted to finding, inventing, presenting, and distributing tools for explorers will change the world.

Exploration consists of passionate interest in problems, and truthful, determined, persistent search for solutions. Some think this is the best of life, the foundation of all possible happiness. We are in business to learn from such people and to work with them.
Our purpose is to build a world fit for explorers and to learn to fit ourselves to inhabit such a world.

A characteristic of thriving explorations, and of cultures rich with them, is freeorder, a balance among designed and spontaneous orders that supports the testing of theoretical and practical conjectures, the honest recognition of error, and the rapid emergence of new conjecture.

We call enterprises built around this concept freeorder generators, or forges, a word chosen to summon images of places devoted to making tools.
Forges are enterprises in goods of mind and spirit interesting and useful to explorers.

The future of the world depends on the provision of such goods through varied and open enterprise. By this we gain the benefit of critical thought and continuous reduction of error, and avoid catastrophic reliance on organizations whose continuing dominance benefits from the restriction of thought, expression, and action.

Forges catalyze and support the emergence of freeorder within individuals, organizations, and cultures, thus accelerating an upward rising avalanche of spirit that will transform the world.

The Explorers Foundation is a forge, a freeorder generator whose work is to bring together into coherent patterns the story of the emergence of Freeorder as a world civilization, and to invite all to share in the adventure of building it and living within it.

Leif Smith, Denver, Colorado; leif *dot* smith *at* explorersfoundation "dot" org; 303-778-0880