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Dating potential customers… sounds dangerous. 😉
I think you hit upon it. When resources have be sourced from controlled worlds Then you have to do what you can to get by.i.e. astroids and salvage. That turns the golden age for the haves into the wild west for the have nots.
Interesting…
It is like the internet, i was told by the radio today that 90% of the web is the “under web” and the “dark net”. What if the world that Ish and crew have been running around in is onle the 10% of the universe that is under the control of the corporate worlds… Some cool idea’s beginning to perk in your brain sar. Can’t wait until your finger start itch and the story want to get out.
That bit about 90% of the web being the “dark net” – it’s true, but it’s not nearly as sinister as that “dark” bit makes it sound. Every time you shop Amazon, Wal-Mart, or visit some other major database driven site, you’re sneaking off into the DarkNet. It’s really not nearly as big a deal as they make it out to be. Sure, there’s Silk Road II, and closed e-mail lists locked down with PGP using ridiculously long bit-count passwords for child porn sharers, but meh – you won’t run into them accidentally at any odds you could take to Vegas.
3D Printers don’t really replace traditional manufacturing – it complements it. What it means is that you can carry a single 3D printer (though I would carry 3, just as backup), and a large database of *information* (very compact) and set up and build your factories and other manufacturing facilities from the ground up, instead of having to carry a large selection of spare parts along. Unless you have a matter/energy/matter “replicator” a la ST:TNG, 3D printers aren’t magic. However, what they *do* mean is that any planet that has one, should then have 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21… And since any atomic-resolution 3D printer is – by its basic natural – an atomic-level recycling machine, any reasonably Earth-like planet (which goes all the way from Mars to planets on the edge of turning into gas giants) will have all 90 of the naturally occurring elements to one degree or another – meaning that inport/export of anything but information is, for the most part, not that meaningful. Sure, at first, it’ll be *easier* to import many things, but set up a decent space program early, and any stellar system will *CERTAINLY* have everything reasonably needed. It’s fairly certain any stellar system is going to have something like an asteroid belt, even if most of it has been herded into the trojan points of one or more planets, which leads to easy access to most of the platinum groups, and plenty of ice. After all, the 3rd most common element in the universe, as best we can tell, is actually *OXYGEN*. (Carbon comes in at #4, too).
Of course, some minerals and usefully pre-assembled compounds might be more easily found in some places, than in others, and this would form the basis for some level of trade, for a time. We’ll see what comes up, after the Singularity.