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I’m not convinced the analogy to the music industry gets us much further than an observation that when a new technology appears some people will take it up to some extent and that to some extent it will replace previous technologies @blinky465. I don’t think the music industry analogy can tell us enough about whether or not, and to what extent, the take up of 3D printing will make casting and business models like Games Workshop’s redundant or not for us to make much by way of accurate predictions. It’s a single case study, as it were, and there are considerable differences between the music industry and the miniatures industry and their various formats. (The book industry is different again.) We could make an analogy to LaserDiscs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc) or MiniDiscs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc) as much as we could to MP3s. That’s not to say that 3D printers won’t largely replace casting miniatures; i’m not making a case either way as such.

That written, it occurs to me that there is a better analogy to 3D printers, and that’s printers. Printers have not, for the most part, replaced books.