# Progress May Not Need Humanity as Its Carrier by Georg Diez > "Maybe the idea of progress itself is not necessarily tied to the idea of humanity. Maybe humans are not the eternal carrier of this idea." > **— Georg Diez**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [Progress Free From The Burden Of Humanity And History](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26185) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Georg Diez; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Human Condition|Human Condition]] - [[wiki/Post-Humanism|Post-Humanism]] - [[wiki/Future Person Standard|Future Person Standard]] - [[wiki/Posthumanism|Posthumanism]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Maybe the idea of progress itself is not necessarily tied to the idea of humanity. Maybe humans are not the eternal carrier of this idea." — Georg Diez, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-georg-diez-progress-not-need-humanity-carrier ```