Athos Salome, the 39-year-old Brazilian mystic known as the "Living Nostradamus," has issued a new warning that the next contest for global dominance will not be decided on Earth but in orbit. In an interview with LADbible, he said, "The next global hegemony will not be defined by what is on the ground, but by which power controls the orbit around it." He argued that whoever controls space infrastructure, satellites, surveillance systems and related technologies would gain huge military, economic and intelligence advantages.
Salome says the new space race is very different from the 20th-century version. He described a behind-the-scenes struggle involving private companies planning asteroid mining, major powers investing heavily in autonomous satellites, classified tracking systems and weapons that could operate above the atmosphere. He said space is no longer only a research frontier, but a new arena of power, even though he did not provide evidence that such weapons are already deployed.
He also warned that the next major technological threat would come from quantum computing. Salome said advanced quantum machines could eventually crack the mathematical encryption protecting banking systems, passwords, diplomatic communications and military networks. He said, "The whole world will need to rebuild its digital security architecture," and added that governments are already quietly moving toward post-quantum encryption. The article notes that this concern is grounded in real efforts by states, researchers and tech companies to prepare for that possibility.
The piece also places Salome's track record in context. He has claimed to have predicted the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a major escalation involving the United States, Israel and Iran, but the article says his forecasts often mix broad, flexible language with missed details. In the Iran case, he said he anticipated a direct military flare-up by March 2026, but was much less accurate on when it would end. Even so, his latest claims tap into real fears that future conflicts could be fought above the atmosphere, in satellites, in banks' servers and across critical digital systems.
