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Will 3-D Printing Cause Traditional Manufacturing to Collapse?

Harvard Business Review

All products bear a licensing agreement that makes each consumer an official beta tester of the purchased “prototype.”. To give order to the broad, scattered, and diverse line of new products churned out by these smaller networks, companies begin to develop hardware as a service — hardware platforms similar to today’s smartphone app markets.

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