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We propose and formally derive the Law of Technological Power Displacement: technology systematically and irreversibly displaces power from the citizen space toward the public-corporate apparatus, operating automatically, invisibly, and independently of the intentions of any agent. Three structural mechanisms drive this result. First, technological deployment generates relational disorder: new categories of interaction among agents that existing legal frameworks do not contemplate and whose normative definition structurally disadvantages the weaker party. Second, this expansion of the effective public domain is autocatalytic: each regulatory cycle expands the institutional capacity to absorb the next. Third, the democratic capacity to restore citizen space decays endogenously through two channels — growing power asymmetry and the structural epistemic captivity of the regulator — driven by the same mechanism that produces displacement. We formalise these mechanisms through three coupled differential equations. The fracture ratio φ(t) = λ(t)τ(t)/ρ(t) is shown to be monotonically increasing by a sign argument requiring no auxiliary condition. The law predicts a structural state of the system, not discrete events, and is therefore invariant to the standard critique of social prediction models. We further show that the system exhibits a fold bifurcation: once the fracture ratio crosses a critical threshold, the democratic equilibrium ceases to exist as an attractor, and the restoration investment required to recover it — the escape velocity of democratic control — grows super-quadratically in elapsed time past the crossing. This formalises the structural tendency toward power concentration as an automatic process requiring no deliberate political decision. Two independent empirical sources support the model. A 46-year longitudinal Ω index for Spain, constructed from 62 verified organisms in the Official State Gazette (BOE), achieves R² = 0.515 in the central mechanistic test, with 5 of 6 statistical tests significant at p < 0.001. A panel of EU27 democracies using Digital Society Project v7 data confirms monotonic Ψ growth across all 27 member states, 2000–2022. The within-country estimator (T5) is borderline (p = 0.059), which is expected: the DSP variables measure political digital repression, not regulatory apparatus expansion. That significance is achieved with a theoretically imperfect proxy is evidence of signal robustness rather than model weakness. The result shows that from the Principle of Technological Non-Neutrality, under conditions satisfied by any society deploying technology as an economic vector, the Law of Technological Power Displacement follows with logical necessity.