(a light hearted What If) What will Gen Con be like in 2102?

[Edena_of_Neith]

This is a What If.
A time for the imagination.

What will Gen Con be like, 100 years from now?

How will people find out the details of the Convention prior to going?
How much will it cost to attend the Convention?
How will people get to the Convention?
How difficult will it be to find Hotel space?
How difficult will it be to find Parking space?

How long will the Convention last?
Will the Convention start on a weekday?
Will the Convention be held at a Convention Hall?
What city will the Convention be held in?
What will the city be like that the Convention is held in?

What will the concessions be like?
What extra-Conventional activities will be available?
What places of interest nearby could Conventioners go and see?

What kind of games will be held at the Convention?
What kind of LARPs will be held at the Convention?
What kind of computer games will be held at the Convention?
What kind of seminars will be held at the Convention?
What kind of interaction between Gamers and Celebrities will occur at the Convention?

What will the Dealer's Room be like?
How will the Dealers show off their wares?

What kind of costumes will people come in?
What kind of extravagant things will people bring to the Convention?
What kind of clothing will most people wear to the Convention?

How long will Registration take?
How difficult will Registration be?
How difficult will event Registration be?

How many Events will occur at the Convention?
How many people will be able to play in each Event?

Will the Past (our time) be remembered and honored?
Will historic gaming figures (from our time) be remembered and honored?
Will said historic figures perhaps still be around (alive) to attend the Convention?
Will we still be around to attend the Convention?

Just curious.

 

[Krug]

Best 'brain-transmitted' product categories should be huge.

 

[Painfully]

Revived frozen heads of all the same guests of honor as we had this year will be on display. And Bill Gates will own D&D and force everyone to buy his new version every year so he can make more money by not supporting the older one.

 

[Privateer]

Probably just the same, but different.

Yep, that pretty much covers it.

 

[Dinkeldog]

It'll finally have made it to Chicago.

 

[Piratecat]

They'll be on a new edition of "d20 Modern."

 

[Mark]

Free parcel of Deodorant Nanobots handed out to all attendees. "GenCon 2102: Best Smelling Con Evar!"

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Ed Greenwoods beard will be on special display, as by this time it will have achieved sentience of its own. It will turn out to be funnier than any other guest, even the legendary Gygax glasses from GenCon 2067.

 

[Shiv]

There will not be a GenCon because there will be no gaming, at least not for us.

We will spend our time lapping up puddle water in cornfields, eeking out a meager survival. That is, until the apes come and round us up with horses and guns.

I have seen the future and it stars Chuck Heston.

 

[William Ronald]

Extraterrestrial gamers will be somewhat amused at a seminar called "Historical Perspectives in Gaming: Views of Humans and Non-humans."

Just don't annoy the Vorlons, though......

Edena: Missed you at the EN World Gathering. Although I was pleased to meet a lot of people there.