In 2017, London-based art and technology studio,

FIELD

, started an extensive research project that explores the most relevant smart technologies. From an in-depth study of their logic and code, they created a series of five illustrations for/u00a0

The World in 2018

/u00a0by WIRED magazine, creating a new visual language to make algorithms much more accessible to all.

'There/u2019s a real lack of imagery and visual metaphors for all these new and very abstract things that we have in our lives,' explains Marcus Wendt, creative director at/u00a0FIELD. 'We don/u2019t have anything that will help us decide whether we can really trust these systems, or which one to go for, whenever there is more than one option.'