# What Will Evolution Make of Life in a Hundred Thousand Years by Jonathan B. Losos > “How will evolution shape the biological world one hundred years from now, or one hundred thousand?” > **— Jonathan B. Losos**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Jonathan B. Losos](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27635) — Jonathan B. Losos's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-109). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Synthetic Cambrian Explosion as a Technological Speciation Event|The Synthetic Cambrian Explosion as a Technological Speciation Event]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Evolutionary Dynamics|Evolutionary Dynamics]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “How will evolution shape the biological world one hundred years from now, or one hundred thousand?” — Jonathan B. Losos, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jonathan-losos-evolution-make-life-in-hundred ```