> On Feb 27, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Joseph Paul <xxxxxx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> Value of gold in the future may depend on its technical qualities. It has a number of them.
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It’s malleable, has very high conductivity, excellent resistance to oxidation; it will be valuable, moreso than copper or silver, but not it’s near-mythical valuation here.

> SO what are the long entrenched arguments about Traveller tech and economics?

Bluntly, the advent of essentially free energy via fusion, gravitic control, and the fine control over nuclear strong and weak forces implied by nuclear dampers means you can, essentially, cheaply create endless supplies of virtually any element you want. It’s the Philosophers Stone in generalist form.

Traveller *should* be a post-scarcity society. It is not. Why has been a source of much discussion.

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Bruce Johnson
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