and we're here to go

Fifty years from now, what will your weblog look like? And how will it be read? On a screen, or beamed directly into the head alongside the Rotifer Channel?
Given current plans for colonization of the solar system, and because this planet is rapidly becoming unusable as a result of the selfish behaviour of the more powerful nations, I feel I may very well be based on Mars, so my banner will look something like this:

I'll probably be living underground, where the temperature is low but constant. Rather similar to Saddam Hussein's spiderhole, I envisage, but with a larger number of books, thicker socks and an extra jumper; then wait for the development teams topside to produce the promised lush oasis-type environment.
And in the long winter evenings (isn't every evening one of those on Mars?), curl up and listen to the voices in your head tell of cultures and civilisations long gone. Spend time removing red grit from the statuette of Ray Bradbury in its wall-niche.

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