Thousands of small printers folded.

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In 1998, while fishing the Yellowstone River, he got an idea: There must be scads of small-town printers like me, in the same boat, as it were--big debt payments on the printing press and not enough work to pay it off.

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Yet most impressive are the more modest homegrown ventures: new boutique hotels, restaurants, small IT shops, printers, event planning, and tourism offerings. (In 2010 alone, 18, 447 new businesses were registered in Rwanda.) A young woman dressed in smart attire urged two visitors to come to her new shop, which sells upscale fabrics and offers custom tailoring.

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Within this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.

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By the end of this decade, we will see 3D printers doing the small-scale production of previously labor-intensive crafts and goods.

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At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.

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The first generation of printers will likely suit hobbyists and small businesses, not raging masses of Black Friday zombies.

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