[$] Welcome to 2018

Welcome to the first LWN.net feature article for 2018. The holidays areover and it's time to get back to work. One of the first orders ofbusiness here at LWN is keeping up with our ill-advised tradition of makingunlikely predictions for the coming year. There can be no doubt that 2018will be an eventful and interesting year; here's our attempt at guessinghow it will play out.