One might as well ask if the sun will rise in the morning. I say that because with most things it really depends. It depends on how much effort a person or group is willing to apply to a thing. Poser choose your flavor, has come a long way since it's beginnings. Many things people take for granted were either not possible or not know as things that could be possible. I think the place place to look would be the users. What are they doing? What are they making? Just recently the maya doll came out (For free) and I have to say it is one of few that has been accepted by the poser community. And a user made it. So I would have to say that a good deal of people still belive in the poswer of poser and it's uses. More and more I see the P4 dork being used on TV. Just recently I saw him fully animated as a super hero for a promo of "Superheroes revealed". Even miss victoria has made a few appearances. It could be that "Real" animators as they may be called are starting to look at poser as a means to get things done. If that is true, then poser has a future. Now if you look at the current state of Curious labs one may get the dark feeling that the end is near. While it is possible, I think that there is always hope they can solve thier problems, get some focus as to what they want to do and get it done. I think if one looks only at one part of poser or the community then depending on what you choose to take as truth poser is dead or alive. If you look at the whole I think you may see that even in a down economy posert is still moving, The renderosity store still makes sales as well as DAZ and RDNA, maybe not as much as they would like to be sure. But few sales are better than none. The only thing I see as a possible end of poser is that people stop learning how to use it. Relying on canned poses and mat poses and lighting and cameras. Not experimenting with IK and material zones or texture mapping, or looking at morph targets could spell the end. For if no one learns then the program stagnates and dies because no one knows how to do anything. Poser, for the lack of a better word is a tool. With any tool the day one stops attempting to learn more about the tool and it other possible uses beyond what it was designed to do, but rather what it can do, it becomes less and less used. With constant learning and pushing the program and delving deeper into what it "might" do one will find more and the tool with remain a trusted and well worn one that you don't dare give up, because it is the stepping stone to other more complex tools. Had I not gotten into poser, My art would have ended. What I know about poser now allos me to understand how texture mapping, vertices, splines, normals, Joint perameters, IK, lumens work. For I would have never needed to, to get the look I wanted. With poser I honed my blocking and lighting and designs for sets. With poser I have been able to tell people the crappy fantasy stories I make up. None of this I could have done with 2D freehand. Now many can, and do well. But I got as far as my mastery of talent allowed me in freehand. Poser allowed me to go further and get things done. I'm still learning poser, likley I will always be learning poser. Why? Because I know there is more in this old application, I just have to go looking, and experimenting. So, is there a future for poser? Well, for me there is knowing what I know about it, and what I can get out of it. Perhaps the best question would be. "Based on what you have learned so far, is there nothing else to learn in poser? Has it given you everything it has?" I know I don't have clue. All I know is that there is more to know, and as long as there is more to know, then that would make a future....