Peering Into the Pandemic End Game: Before COVID–19 fades, we'll see a flurry of advances in contact tracing, cloud computing, surveillance, and online gaming

Spoiler alert: We won't get what we want in 2021. A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we can expect to remain in a kind of limbo for months yet, stuck in an uncomfortable place between health and illness, economic contraction and recovery, all while still maintaining awkward distances and yearning for heartwarming hugs.