Tuesday, May 13, 2003

That shoots that theory.



Friday, May 9, 2003 - LONDON - Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the prose the likes of Shakespeare.



Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.



Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word.



Typing Monkeys Don't Write Shakespeare (washingtonpost.com)