Civilisational cognition is preparing to leave its planet

This sentence, written in any decade before this one, would have been science fiction. It is now a private-company business plan in advanced talks. The implications cascade past every existing institutional framework. National sovereignty over computational infrastructure ends at the Kármán line. The energy footprint of intelligence becomes orbital. The latency cost of consulting one's own civilisation's mind becomes a function of orbital mechanics. Military and intelligence services have not be ...