"If you hook [3D printing] up to an ecosystem, then you get access to everyone else's design files and you have this unbelievable library."

BCG's Patrick Forth on the biggest impact 3D printing will have.

In a recent article in the Australian Financial Review, BCG's Patrick Forth emphasized that the biggest impact isn't from 3D printing alone but from its ability to interconnect with other applications. "If you hook [3D printing] up to an ecosystem, then you get access to everyone else's design files and you have this unbelievable library," he stated.

Australian Financial Review