“It would be very interesting to speculate on what the human imagination is going to do with a frontierless world where it must seek its inspriation in uniformity rather than variety, in sameness rather than contrast, in safety rather than peril in probing harmless nuances of the known rather than the thundering uncertainties of unknown seas and continents. The people are going to miss the frontier more than words can express. For centuries they heard its call, listend to its promises, and bet their lives and fortunes on its outcome. It calls no more....� Walter Prescott Web, The Great Frontier, 1951