2020 has revealed the limits of technology We will always want to interact with other humans, but we remain as divided as ever about how society should be run 27 December 2020 • 6:00pm This has always been a strange time of year, stranded between the recent Christmas festivities and the coming celebration of the new year. But this year it feels even more peculiar, with not much festivity to recover from and perhaps not much celebration to look forward to. In a normal year, I use this time to look back on the last 12 months, commenting on what happened and on how well my forecasts performed. This year, however, that seems otiose.