By Futurist Thomas Frey
When Jeff Bezos floated the idea of orbiting data centers circling Earth, the world pictured the next frontier in cloud computing—a literal cloud in the sky. But as we rush to move our data, money, and machines into orbit, a haunting question looms: whose laws apply when business leaves the planet?
As the world’s tech giants race to move computing power into orbit, a new kind of frontier chaos is emerging—one where banks float above regulation, casinos orbit beyond taxation, and privacy laws stop at the edge of the atmosphere. In a world where satellites could host entire businesses, the question isn’t just what’s possible—it’s whose rules still matter.
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