By Futurist Thomas Frey
The delegation from Indonesia touched down at Singapore Changi Airport at dawn, then caught the thirty-minute ferry to Meridian Island. Director Jordan James was there at the dock to greet them personally—not because protocol demanded it, though it did, but because every visiting delegation still seemed surprised that “Privacy Island” was real.
A functioning microstate of 47,000 people, just twenty miles off the Singapore coast. Recognized by 156 countries. Home to the Global Privacy Council, the AI Governance Authority, and the International Data Rights Tribunal. An island that had somehow become the world’s operating system for managing technologies too complex for any single nation to regulate alone.
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