[andrewas]

I dont think the basic setup - screen, keyboard and mouse - will change that much. Unless society accepts wiring people up to computers or some radical new technology like practical hologrpahy comes along.

Games in that time will probly fall into the same categroies as today and a true ad&d sim will remain the dream of gamers since its not clear its even *possible* for any computer to emulate a human DM to an accceptable level.

Graphics and such will obviously be superior to those we have now, but I dont think that they will be all that much better, Since game development times wont be long enough to create photo-realistic graphics for a game as complex and BG2. Infinite-poly engines will help take some of the work out of course.

Current series will lilkely not last long enough to make it to 2100, although the best will likely be rememberd and hopefuly up for free download.

(With some of the estimates ive seen recently, BG2 will fit on one of that eras floppy-equivalents several times over)

Hopefuly well see the end of the varying computer specs - technology should become powerful enough that a basic set-up will exceed the requirements of any game - something were already seeing - and so most gamers will have a similar setup.