By Futurist Thomas Frey
When Nobody Knows Who’s in Charge
In early 2037, a private consortium called AstraVault Systems completed Horizon Station—the world’s first autonomous data center in orbit, positioned near the Earth-Moon L1 point. A football-field-sized structure assembled by swarms of construction drones launched from three different countries, running almost entirely on AI-supervised systems.
AstraVault marketed it as “The First Borderless Cloud.” That phrase would soon become the most controversial slogan in history.
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