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When Star Wars was released in 1977 it went on to serve as the highest grossing film of all time (until ET knocked it out in ’82). Meaning, a ton of people went to see it.
Now, fast forward 30+ years and if you attend a Star Wars convention you are very much considered a geek. So, what will be the new “geek” in the year 2025? What popular movie, game, or activity that is around today will people be having mega-conventions for? What will geeks of the future obsess over? What will our kids be writing about in GeekDad then?
Well let’s take a peek into the time machine!
- Swishing & Flicking @ Potter Celebration IV, London
- Magic The Gathering Going Still Strong In College Dorms At The Age of 32
- Celebrating Dr. Who’s Diamond Anniversary: Which Doctor was the best?
- 100 Things Our Kids Won’t Know About: Featuring “When Social networking could only be done through websites”, “When portable computing consisted of carrying around a 4lb slab of aluminum, glass, and a chemical battery”, and “Paper money”
- SimAnything Reviewed: Maxis’ newest sim lets you play god
- NetNanny: Is raising our kids through crowdsourcing ruining our future?
- Weekend Project: Quantum Computing Calculator
- Why The Phantom Menace Is Better Than Episodes 7 – 9
- The End Has Come: Microsoft Goes Bankrupt!
- You’re Still Using A Keyboard? How Very 2015!
- GeekDad Reviews Apple’s iCar and iHome
- Reviewing MC Frontalot’s Oldies Hits Vol. 3
- President Wheaton Declares July 13th A National Holiday (Long Live Picard!)
- GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, A Cult Classic
- GeekDad Attends A Midnight Showing of Fanboys
- Shatner To Attend TrekCon! 94 and Still Ticking!
- Pokemon Ultimate Immersion HoloComic Debuts @ PokeCon, Canberra
- Playstation Zen, Will You Jack In?
- Great Geek Debate: Naruto vs Bleach
- Duke Nukem Forever, Release Coming In Q2 ’25
