BBC NEWS | Technology | E-mail shrinks the world
An experiment has found that messages only have to be forwarded between five and seven times to reach almost any other e-mail user.
The idea was tested by asking participants to forward an e-mail to friends, relations or colleagues they thought were closer to a randomly chosen target e-mail user.
The experiment updates a pioneering test of the small world idea carried out in the late 1960s.
So can you therefore now connect anyone to Kevin Bacon?
Obviously not to me...
Posted by Paul Goodison at August 7, 2003 10:12 PM | TrackBack