[$] LWN's 2020 Retrospective

Predictions are hard, as they say, especially when they are about thefuture. So perhaps your editor can be forgiven for not anticipating that2020 would be the sort of year that makes one think nostalgically abouttrips to the dentist, waiting in a crowded motor-vehicle office, orcrossing the Pacific in a row-47 middle seat. If only we had known howgood we had it. Be that as it may, this year is finally coming to an end.Read on for a look back at the year, starting with the ill-advised predictions made in January.