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    2020 in review

    Our best illustrations of 2020

    Our artists’ thought-provoking, playful creations bring our stories to life, often saying more with an image than words ever could.
    December 31, 2020

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

    conceptual illustration of 3 women's silhouetted faces
    Is getting pregnant “medically necessary” right now?
    INA JANG
    Zooming
    DOGBOY
    10 Breakthrough Technologies: Hyper-personalized medicine
    JULIA DUFOSSé
    Your biggest questions about coronavirus, answered
    PAIGE VICKERS
    tech legislation illo
    What the 1930s can teach us about dealing with Big Tech today
    SOPHY HOLLINGTON
    Algostory 1.7: “Krishna and Arjuna”
    ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAX LOEFFLER
    race for a cure
    The race to find a covid-19 drug in the blood of survivors
    SELMAN DESIGN
    This is what it will take to get us back outside
    ROB SHERIDAN
    How Germany tamed covid-19
    PATRICK LEGER
    The long, complicated history of “people analytics”
    ANDREA D'AQUINO
    sharing misinformation
    How the truth was murdered
    NAJEEBAH AL-GHADBAN
    10 Breakthrough Technologies: Unhackable internet
    YOSHI SODEOKA
    conceptual illustration
    What AI still can’t do
    SAIMAN CHOW
    Conceptual illustration of a student sitting in a window that shows large ethernet cords plugged in around her
    The children being left behind by America’s online schooling
    CATHRYN VIRGINIA
    conceptual illustration showing 5 figures in a dark empty landscape
    Many covid-19 survivors will be left traumatized by their ICU experience
    JIALUN DENG
    bicycles
    Why you don’t really know what you know
    We put our team of writers to the test when we asked them to draw a bicycle from memory in 5 minutes. We ended up with such a great group of bikes that we decided to use them for story art.
    Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need
    NICO ORTEGA
    A rhinocorn -- a cross between a rhino and unicorn.
    A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
    MS TECH / PIXABAY
    pig genes operation game
    Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemi
    SELMAN DESIGN
    conceptual illustration
    “Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking
    CHRISSIE ABBOTT
    conceptual illustration showing a police hat with overlapped nueral network that's being dismantled.
    Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
    FRANZISKA BARCZYK

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