tiredMy thoughts? It'll be the same as whatever the historic equivalent was for that use-level of transportation. If slow and costly, expect valuable things that are difficult or impossible to produce locally. Spices, silk, gems, and artwork were all traded insanely long distances -- along with expert personnel. If transport moves faster and/or cheaper for some reason (say, wormholes or hyperspace) then we can begin to add bulkier commodities in approximate order of demand/difficulty. Since we live in the information age now, we should also count information as something to be traded, although it usually doesn't have to be shipped in hardcopy.
If people can move at all, then they will ship and trade things.
February 6 2011, 19:35:05 UTC 10 years ago
Your observations are spot on.
I may have to get back to my long-ago-abandoned sci-fi novel.
The major premise of it was that a fungus growing on manure on one impoverished planet
suddenly became a delicacy everywhere else.
Thoughts
February 6 2011, 20:18:05 UTC 10 years ago
Thank you!
>>I may have to get back to my long-ago-abandoned sci-fi novel.<<
You should.
>>The major premise of it was that a fungus growing on manure on one impoverished planet suddenly became a delicacy everywhere else.<<
*laugh* Oh, you could totally mine history for inspiration there. It's happened with a variety of odd products. And people pay insane amounts of money for truffles, even today.
http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/truffles.html