Every frontier eventually gets integrated into civilization. It&#x27;s only a matter of time. Civilization brings its laws and its infrastructure and its masses of people. As civilization is bigger than the frontier, the frontiersmen either have to civilize themselves, or move on to another frontier.<p>The nice thing about the Internet is that it is particularly hard to civilize. It&#x27;s incredibly hard to wrap laws, which have to be enforced, around information technology. There is always more information than there is people to look at it. So the Internet offers an &quot;endless frontier&quot; of sorts. The Chinese government is famously grappling with this.<p>Such a thing is not unprecedented, there are plenty of arenas where there is always going to be room for intrepid settlers to voyage to and scrape out an individualistic experience in. Academia is such a place. Doesn&#x27;t matter how civilized the university gets, there is always room for more people pushing the boundaries of institutionalized knowledge.<p>We should welcome society into the Internet. Powerful ideas are bigger than even society, so the Internet will forever remain a place where good ideas thrive. It is society that will be changed by the Internet, not the Internet by society. Society will make its settlements, and people fearful of the rough frontier lifestyle will cling to these settlements, but  it won&#x27;t keep them safe from the powerful ideas generated further out.