I don’t mean frontier as in “the American Western Frontier.” I meant frontier as in, “the frontiers of human knowledge.” It’s not clear to me that the latter is limited in the way that the former is.

Creation of knowledge products both facilitates the further production of new knowledge products and expands the scope of new knowledge products which can be created. This process is like a chain reaction where the potential energy unleashed may ultimately exceed any practical scale modern economics has meaningfully considered.

Software costs almost nothing to deploy, even on a global scale, versus its potential value delivered; and it can be created or improved with almost no additional consumption of resources vs (the programmer) simply existing.