How 3D printing is transforming our relationship with cultural heritage
(PHYSorg.com Archaeology & Fossils)

A few years ago, we were promised that 3D printing would transform the world. In 2011, The Economist featured a 3D-printed Stradivarius violin on its front page, claiming that 3D printing `may have as profound an impact on the world as the coming of the factory did`. These enormous hopes for digital fabrication, and especially 3D printing, may have seemed overinflated. But perhaps the impacts are finally materialising.