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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.

By Emily Luong

December 31, 2020

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

Is getting pregnant “medically necessary” right now?

Zooming

10 Breakthrough Technologies: Hyper-personalized medicine

Your biggest questions about coronavirus, answered

What the 1930s can teach us about dealing with Big Tech today

Algostory 1.7: “Krishna and Arjuna”

The race to find a covid-19 drug in the blood of survivors

This is what it will take to get us back outside

How Germany tamed covid-19

The long, complicated history of “people analytics”

How the truth was murdered

10 Breakthrough Technologies: Unhackable internet

What AI still can’t do

The children being left behind by America’s online schooling

Many covid-19 survivors will be left traumatized by their ICU experience

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

A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data

Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemi

“Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” Inside the disturbing online world of gangstalking

Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.

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