The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that, given an infinite amount of time, a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter will produce any given series of letter combinations, including major works of human literature. Being an old philosophical concept, we have one guy to thank for dragging monkeys into it: Émile Borel, a french statistics mathematician. In his work he brings up the monkeys on typewriters, in an attempt to illustrate how absurd this idea is. He tried to explain that in large collections and with slim chances, theoretical possibilities become practically impossible. Meaning: in our finite universe, with a finite supply of monkeys, typewriters and time, no primate will ever type out any major work of human literature by accident. Alas, the image of a monkey at a typewriter was so grand, that it proliferated through western pop culture as an iconic image and people only remembered the theoretical part...

But what if these theoretical monkeys eventually find out their work will bear no practical fruits? How will they react? With despair? Rebellion? Lethargy?

Let’s find out.