Our best illustrations of 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?

INA JANG

Zooming

DOGBOY

10 Breakthrough Technologies: Hyper-personalized medicine

JULIA DUFOSSé

Your biggest questions about coronavirus, answered

PAIGE VICKERS

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

SOPHY HOLLINGTON

Algostory 1.7: “Krishna and Arjuna”

ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAX LOEFFLER

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

How the truth was murdered

NAJEEBAH AL-GHADBAN

10 Breakthrough Technologies: Unhackable internet

YOSHI SODEOKA

What AI still can’t do

SAIMAN CHOW

The children being left behind by America’s online schooling

CATHRYN VIRGINIA

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

JIALUN DENG

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 radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data

MS TECH / PIXABAY

Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemi

SELMAN DESIGN

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

CHRISSIE ABBOTT

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

FRANZISKA BARCZYK