Data centers in space.

With the upcoming wave of space-based internet access, the next thing that will obviously come is space based data centers. The advantages:

- Clean and very reliable power: solar with perfectly determined period.

- Significantly reduces latency compared to keeping them on the ground.

Most probably what will happen is the that the owners of satellites will.also host data centers the can spin up a VM in a few seconds. When the satellite has passed, the running VM is moved to the next satellite and continue to serve its users from that one.

What should 6G be and what 5G will be

Now days everyone except Ericsson and Huawei (and some others that depend on the success) admit that 5G will not be very exciting. Only offering slightly more of the same thing as today. But it will now revolutionize the way we live in the same way as LTE did (oh but it did!).
My prediction: 5G will be like 3G, a system developed that does not quite fit the needs. Thus, there are much bigger chances with 6G, or perhaps 5.5G. (These generations are really quite silly to talk about anyway since it is much more of a continuous evolution)
However, there is still a bright future for communication. And the application is... *drums*... Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality. That is what will shape the future. And the world will be ready around 5.3G. Then it will be clear what 5G should have been, and we can correct it with 6G.

One key function that will be the most interesting one is local data sources. That is, the system will have to be able to fetch large quantities of data that is produced very locally (within meters).