They indeed make adapters for the first and third items on your list.   Cellular is a different ball of wax.

But there are so many things that are plugged into the wall that I would have a hard time believing over a ten year span that there wouldn't be some type of adapter available.

 

This reminds me of several times in the Peanuts comic strip when a character would remark, "500 years from now who'll know the difference?"

Same argument can be made for wax cylinders.

You have a small number of collectors who have a collection of them, and can bust them out for five minutes to show them off.





But the music itself can be had without the need for all that. It's available through a browser.





Which do you think people will be doing more of 100 years from now? Seeking out a Victrola and the cylinders and some dude who knows how they work, or just firing up the game in their super computer?

 

Agreed.

There are only so many practical alternatives to how houses are wired up, from a standpoint of physics. (at least on the scope of 100 years time)

"worst case scenario" for current devices, we either switch everything to DC power (due to some kind of distributed power production and big home batteries like PowerWall) or even further we go to some kind of wireless power transmission (unlikely, IMO, given the limitations of what that entails).

In either case, having a simple DC-to-AC inverter (a tried-and-true thing that has existed pretty much as long as cars have had cigarette lighters built in) is a straightforward solution that isn't going to cease to exist in the next 100 years.

They might get more expensive, due to low volume of production, as old devices die off for good.  But they'll exist.
 

oh yeah, I agree. I'm just saying there's more to it then nostalgia and there will be a very niche market interested in physical copies of games.

Not everything from every activity remains collectible, but there are always aspects of them that remain collectible.  People collect some aspect of everything he mentioned.
Not every video game is going to be sought after, but based on current popularity, NES has a good chance at being a survivor.  The best comparison to video games is mechanical games.  These are over 100 years old and are collectibles.
 

Haven't any of you guys seen the historical documents?  The adventures of Geordi LaForge & Data show that any old tech can be patched up, hooked up and made completely operable again in the future!  And if you aren't well connected enough to get original hardcopies of your own (darn you Kivas Fajo!), you can always replicate new copies or experience perfect holographic reproductions at the press of a button!

Seriously, though, many (most?) of the systems that we're currently talking about actually run, internally, on DC power.  We either plug an AC-to-DC converter into the wall (ala Famicom & Genesis adapters) or the systems themselves have one onboard (NES & possibly SNES), doing that job after receiving power from the brick.  As long as some sort of equivalent power system is still in place (or someone has manufactured an adapter for those with old tech they won't let go of), I think folks should be in good shape as long as the hardware is still operable.

I didn't even bother reading all the comments. No one really thinks about what shit will be in 100 years. Why not ask talk about something more relevant like 5, 10, or 20 years?

Oh, no doubt that for DC power systems (i.e. anything with a "wall wart") it will be straightforward for a competent person to find the means to generate an explicit DC voltage at the amperage they require.

That ability will almost certainly only get even easier than it already is today.


 

...because it's fun to speculate?  As people have for years and years?





 

Agreed it is fun to speculate, however the fun part is seeing what the actual result is. We won't be around in 100 years.