I think a killer app for 3d printers is completely unified design for small-medium businesses. Sorta like how Disneyland has mouse ears on everything. The real

I think a killer app for 3d printers is completely unified design for small-medium businesses. Sorta like how Disneyland has mouse ears on everything. The real money will be made, just like with minicomputers, in the software. Desktop publishing had themes, future software will make it easy to make stuff that looks like, lego or erector set or trees or whatever. High detail procedurally generated themes to surface whatever objects people are producing.