Our best illustrations of 2018

Our artists’ thought-provoking, playful creations bring our stories to life, often saying more with an image than words ever could.

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December 26, 2018

From the MIT Technology Review art team, here are some of our very favorite illustrations of the year:

**Two sick children and a $1.5 million bill: One family’s race for a gene therapy cure**
Illustration by Sébastien Thibault

**Google and Others Are Building AI Systems That Doubt Themselves**
Illustration by Saiman Chow

**Noon in the antilibrary**
Illustration by Rob Sheridan

**Dueling Neural Networks**
Illustration by Derek Brahney | Diagram courtesy of Michael Nielsen, “Neural networks and deep learning”, determination press, 2015

**China’s use of big data might actually make it less Big Brother-ish**
Illustration by Magoz

**The Reunion: a new science-fiction story about surveillance in China**
Illustration by George Wylesol

**How Google took on China—and lost**
Illustration by Stuart Bradford

**Five Jobs That Are Set to Grow in 2018**
Illustration by Nick Little

**Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.**
Illustration by Simon Landrein

**In the World of Cryptocurrencies, Something’s Gotta Give in 2018**
Illustration by Niv Bavarsky

**Your next doctor’s appointment might be with an AI**
Illustration by Nicole Ginelli

**Facebook’s app for kids should freak parents out**
Illustration by Daniel Zender

**Let’s destroy Bitcoin**
Illustration by Ariel Davis

**The economy issue**
Illustration by Noma Bar

**Your genome, on demand**
Illustration by Nico Ortega

**Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard**
Illustration by Evan Cohen

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