Frontier

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The “frontier” is a unique time and place at the birth of a cultural structure where there are new tools, new vistas, there are unlimited possibilities, no rules, maximum hope, minimal exploitation little infrastructure, and the barriers to entry, and chance to forge standards and protocols on which the community can build.

Popular recent frontiers

• Rock n roll 1950s.
• Personal liberation/sexual revolution 1960s
• The personal computer 1970s
• Digitised media 1980s
• Financial derivatives 1980s
• Internet - 1990s
• Crypto - 2010
• AI 2020s