# The Expanding Frontier

> Where human progress is, where it's heading, and how far to the next milestone. An interactive, sourced map of 4,284 technological, scientific and institutional advances across 11 domains, from the first stone tools to the open frontier, with dependencies, dates, evenhanded verdicts and an estimate of how close each frontier milestone is.

Primary source is Grokipedia, with Wikipedia, Wikidata and primary sources as backups. Unverified results are flagged `claimed`. Status: `achieved`, `frontier` (emerging now) or `future` (speculative). The interactive map at / needs JavaScript; every fact is also available as static HTML and data below. Data licence: CC BY 4.0.

## Data
- [nodes.json](https://expandingfrontier.ai/data/nodes.json): every advance (id, name, year, domain, status, summary, verdict, dependencies, sources, confidence)
- [nodes.csv](https://expandingfrontier.ai/data/nodes.csv): the same as CSV
- [frontier.json](https://expandingfrontier.ai/data/frontier.json): frontier and future advances ordered by closeness, with progress and distance-to-milestone data
- [domains.json](https://expandingfrontier.ai/data/domains.json): the 11 domains with counts

## Pages
- [Open frontier](https://expandingfrontier.ai/frontier): every open milestone, closest first
- [Architecture & the Arts](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/architecture-and-the-arts): 95 advances
- [Philosophy & Institutions](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/philosophy-and-institutions): 317 advances
- [Money & Markets](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/money-and-markets): 82 advances
- [Math & Physics](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/math-and-physics): 770 advances
- [Information](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/information): 935 advances
- [Energy](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/energy): 252 advances
- [Manufacturing & Robotics](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/manufacturing-and-robotics): 135 advances
- [Military](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/military): 223 advances
- [Transport & Space](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/transport-and-space): 665 advances
- [Chemistry & Materials](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/chemistry-and-materials): 244 advances
- [Life Sciences](https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/life-sciences): 566 advances

## Citing
Cite as: The Expanding Frontier, "<advance name>", https://expandingfrontier.ai/domain/<domain>#<id> (accessed <date>), dataset version v3.8 (2026.10.28-v2.9-audit+v3.6-eggs+v3.7-domains11). Prefer citing the original sources listed in each record's `sources`.