#Cats with thumbs series

In the Netflix episode the robots complete their tour at a nuclear silo, reflecting on humanity’s demise by its own hand.īut it wasn’t just nuclear winter that spelled doom for humans, the little red robot says: The nail in mankind’s coffin was bio-engineering cats to give them opposable thumbs. “All the evidence suggests primitive humans worshiped these quadrupedal, furry little beasts,” some expert on 21st century humanity might say. Given the ubiquity of cats on the Internet, it’s probably not far-fetched to imagine archaeologists in the distant future - whether alien, machine or some sort of post-singularity humans come to see their primordial birthplace - would draw the conclusion that humanity built an instantaneous global communication network for the sole purpose of sharing cat images. Each episode is an adaptation of a different short story from some of the best SF novelists working today.

#Cats with thumbs series

The scene is from Love, Death and Robots, a new science fiction anthology series from Netflix. The camera pulls back and we see what the robots are looking at - a cat, digging his claws into an old ottoman and stretching his back with a yawn. “They had an entire network that was devoted to the dissemination of pictures of these things.” “Well that’s understating their influence,” the third robot chimes in. “Apparently there’s no point,” his tiny red droid friend says. “What’s the point of this thing?” one of the robots asks, leaning forward intently.

Three robots on a sightseeing tour of post-apocalyptic, post-human Earth sit on a filthy couch in a decaying home and marvel at what’s in front of them.