A Speculative Future History of Trade Secrets from 2029 to 2244
A past and future of trade secrets
I explore how trade secret laws might evolve through a series of fictional future events, blending climate change, geopolitical shifts, and new forms of knowledge protection. Using AI tools, I imagined scenarios ranging from bionic limb technologies to nomadic financial sects, revealing how secrecy could become a bridge between tradition and innovation or a tool for corporate governance in a fragmented world.
Trade secrets emerge not simply as a legal technology but as epistemic boundary objects, technologies that mediate different ways of knowing and protecting knowledge.