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On Sat, 3/26/16, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Salvage Operations (and Submarines)
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Saturday, March 26, 2016, 8:51 PM

 On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at
 11:40 PM, Joseph Paul <xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net>
 wrote:
 What
 won't be cheap?
 Genuine handcrafted
 items.
 A trader could
 probably make a decent living importing things like handmade
 leather items, handthrown pottery and handsewn quilts. As
 least he could, so long as he could document that they
 really were handcrafted. Because an advanced automated
 factory could make such items with the same sort of random
 minor differences and imperfections which true handcrafting
 would yield . . .
 --

 Richard Aiken

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Years & Years ago there was an article in either 'S&T' or 'Ares' mags, way back when SPI published them.

I think it was ostensibly a review of CT HG 2nd ed but, as I recall, the author also took an expanded view of the CTU.

In his opinion he thought that there wouldn't be interstellar commerce in mass bulk but would concentrate on unique high-value items.

He mentioned information as one of those.

At that time, the OTU was still a relatively 'small trade' universe but he thought it was still too big.

I remember recalling that article when, years later, MT came along & Mega-sized, amongst other things, the trade model.

But then, I've always maintained that DGP didn't really understand Traveller nearly as well as they thought they did.

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