# What Knowledge Will Descendants Forget at Evolutionary Bottlenecks by William Grassie > “What knowledge and know-how are our descendants at risk of forgetting as our species passes through future evolutionary bottlenecks?” > **— William Grassie**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — William Grassie](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27500) — William Grassie'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]] (EDGE2018-223). ## 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/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Deep-Time Institutional Memory|Deep-Time Institutional Memory]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What knowledge and know-how are our descendants at risk of forgetting as our species passes through future evolutionary bottlenecks?” — William Grassie, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-william-grassie-knowledge-descendants-forget-at-evolutionary ```