# What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig > “What will be the use of 99% of humanity for the 1%?” > **— David Haig**, *2018, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct Edge response and surrounding essay:** [The Last Question](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27465) — the official response page preserves this exact, continuous passage and its surrounding argument. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first record for the response object and all canonical reminder links derived from it. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] - **Article:** [[articles/Cyber-Physical Lessons from Imperial Beekeeping|Cyber-Physical Beekeeping]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Nolan's Odyssey]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Infrastructure Capture|Infrastructure Capture]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Infrastructure Capture|Infrastructure Capture]] - [[wiki/Regulatory Capture|Regulatory Capture]] - [[wiki/Category Capture|Category Capture]] - [[wiki/Scale of Capture|Scale of Capture]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What will be the use of 99% of humanity for the 1%?” — David Haig, 2018, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-david-haig-use-of-99-percent ```