Poser 4 and 5 are affordable, hugely versatile tools that you can use to learn about 3D figure posing, animation, lighting, materials, setting up and integrating a wide variety of elements into scenes, storytelling, experimenting with rendering styles ranging from comic book to realistic - more than any person can master. The future is that we use all that knowledge and experience with the next generation of tools, whether they be derived from Poser or something else. I started computer graphics with Illustrator 88 and have built on every application I've worked with since. If Poser is what you've got, decide what you now want to create with it and learn from it.