The Battle for Extraterrestrial Security
TREND #5

From the perspective of both commerce and national security nothing has changed more over the past 65-to-70 years than our exploitation of outer space. Obviously computing technology and networks have had a bigger impact in absolute terms, but those were built on the foundation of primitive mainframe computers and early transistor technology. In contrast no artificial satellite had ever orbited the earth, until 1957.<.....

From the perspective of both commerce and national security nothing has changed more over the past 65-to-70 years than our exploitation of outer space. Obviously computing technology and networks have had a bigger impact in absolute terms, but those were built on the foundation of primitive mainframe computers and early transistor technology. In contrast no artificial satellite had ever orbited the earth, until 1957.<.....