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Our best illustrations of 2021

Published

3 years ago

on

3 January 2022

By

Terry Power

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

An E. coli biocomputer solves a maze by sharing the work

ANDREA CHRONOPOULOS

Eight ways scientists are unwrapping the mysteries of the human brain

Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI

The food issue

The change issue

3 space science questions that computing is helping to answer

DANIEL ZENDER

Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab

A horrifying new AI app swaps women into porn videos with a click

Fiction: Dark spaces on the map

Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemic

Why Facebook is using Ray-Ban to stake a claim on our faces

Technology can help us feed the world, if we look beyond profit

Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever

How to build freestanding public restrooms that are clean and safe

Netflix v Modi and the battle for Indian cinema’s soul

Is everything in the world a little bit conscious?

Decoding the CRISPR-baby stories

We’re on track to set a new record for global meat consumption

Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it.

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