Hi Evolution22,
Everybody is closer than you think!
Would you like to meet President Lula? Like to chat with Bill Gates? According to a research called Small World done by the University of Columbia, in New York, six e-mails are sufficient to put you in contact with these personalities.
The study brings back the small world theory, of 1967, which says six degrees seperate two people in any place on the planet. The intention of the research was precisely use the internet to prove the theory.
To do this,the researchers identified 18 target people in 13 different countries and asked the participants to send e-mails to their contacts asking for information about the targets. The results were very curious: on average between five and seven steps were needed for the participants arrived to the desired target.
The study further looked to discover what barriers had made the contact between peoplemore difficult, as around 60 000 participants created aproximately 24 000 message chains, but less than 400 reached their target.
According to those reponsible for the research, the principal difficulty was the fact that many people refused to participate along the chain or simply forgot to send the messages.
Not considering these 'bad participants', just six e-mails and you will bein contact with the chairman (retired) of Microsoft.
Silvia Balieiro, INFO magazine.
Find out more about small world theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_phenomenon
Best regards,
Steve
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