Thursday, December 6, 2007

The infinite monkey theorem

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, in his 1928 book,The Nature of the Physical World, proposed the infinite monkey theorem which suggests that if you were to give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, sooner or later, someone will eventually produce a masterpiece. Given the rapid proliferation of bloggers out there in the blogosphere and the rate at which blogs are being created and posted on, (and not saying that theres a whole bunch of monkeys out there), it follows that the number of masterpieces that will now tumble out of the blogosphere should exponentially rise. How then do we harness all this into well organized buckets - one for masterpieces and one for the other random junk. If someone can find an answer to that (and given all that frenetic typing out there the answer should soon be leaping out and biting someone on the nose pretty soon....)we should soon have organized access to the collected masterpieces of the brave new human race.

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