# Does Human Language Limit Our Collective Knowledge by Nick Enfield > “Is the cumulation of shared knowledge forever constrained by the limits of human language?” > **— Nick Enfield**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Nick Enfield](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27712) — Nick Enfield'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]] (EDGE2018-035). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Art is Long|The Art is Long]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Language|Language]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Is the cumulation of shared knowledge forever constrained by the limits of human language?” — Nick Enfield, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-nick-enfield-human-language-limit-collective-knowledge ```