Our favorite photographs from 2021

In 2021 we saw images capturing the speed of climate change, the visionaries working on today’s pressing issues, a glimpse into a transhuman future, and more.

ASML Machine
Inside the machine that saved Moore’s Law
CHRISTOPHER PAYNE
worker harvests celery crop
How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know
LUCAS FOGLIA
Tiffany Chu portrait
The pandemic could remake public transportation for the better
CHONA KASINGER
Lee Hood
Why covid-19 might finally usher in the era of health care based on a patient’s data
Sophie Zhang
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.

tiktok phone
The beauty of TikTok’s secret, surprising, and eerily accurate recommendation algorithms
SIERRA & LENNY
Xiaowei Wang
“He put QR-coded wristbands on each of the chickens”
Dr Weismann
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines
The world’s largest collection of malformed brains
ADAM VOORHES & ROBIN FINLAY
Kayla Lee at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Kayla Lee
Emma Pierson
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2021 : Emma Pierson

Up close with transhumanists
DAVID VINTINER
Fairy Lake Mudcore
This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change
IAN VAN COLLER
Nomzamo Cape Town aerial view
These drone photos show urban inequality around the world
JOHNNY MILLER
chopping food color
The factory where candy gets its colors

collage of food color manufacturing
The factory where candy gets its colors

Jim Watkins
How to fix what the innovation economy broke about America
NICK HAGEN

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