Looking Back to 2015 while Looking Ahead (Using a Freshly Polished Crystal Ball) to 2016: We'll Begin First by Looking Back at our 'Hits' and 'Misses'

摘要

Prologue: As the mythical Roman God Janus had two faces so he could look ahead to the future while his other face looked back to see from where he had come, this article, written in the same vein, will look back on 2015 while attempting to accurately predict what lies ahead in 2016. This is the third (at least) article like this, which has been written, and it's with some small amount of satisfaction that more than half our predictions have come true. But, sad to say, almost half of our predictions failed miserably to come even close.