No longer are we six degrees of separation apart – Earth is much smaller now than it used to be.įacebook worked with researchers at the Università degli Studi di Milano in Italy and looked at all 721 million of its active users, equivalent to 10 per cent of the world’s population and a total of 69 billion friendships. The startling figure shows how interconnected our world is becoming and how widespread use of the internet is collapsing physical distance on an unprecedented scale. The figure has gone down from 5.28 in 2008 and has been caused by the rise in social networking and sharing websites. The average person needs just 4.74 ‘hops’ to get to anybody in the world, be it a Hollywood star or a peasant living in rural China. In that search, Ouisa in particularly starts to critically study their lives and how much compassion they actually have.It used to be that we were all just six degrees of separation apart – ie you could ‘connect’ anyone to anyone else via finding a friend who knew someone else, who knew someone else, and so on.īut now research by Facebook has found that the gap between us all has shrunk – to as little as four people.
Their encounter with him ends up being an all-too-familiar story that leads them on a search for him after he leaves their house the next morning. After tending to his wounds, the Kittredges invite him to stay the night. Beyond the attraction of talking Paul into getting them roles in the movie, Ouisa, Flan, and Geoffrey all end up being captivated by Paul's charm, charisma, pedigree, and eloquence. Tomorrow, Paul is meeting up with his father, who is in town directing a movie of "Cats". He was a friend of the Kittredges' children, who are attending Harvard more importantly, he's the son of actor and Director Sidney Poitier.
The young man, Paul Poitier (Will Smith), had just arrived in the city when he was mugged outside their building, he sported a minor knife wound to the abdomen. They relay a story to their friends and acquaintances that becomes legendary over time: their encounter with a young black stranger who came stumbling upon their front door one evening as they were courting Geoffrey Miller (Sir Ian McKellen), an important investor who could make them wealthy beyond their dreams. Their prized possession is a double-sided Kandinsky: one side represents control the other, chaos. New Yorkers Louisa "Ouisa" Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and John Flanders "Flan" Kittredge (Donald Sutherland) are upper-class private art dealers, pretentious, but compassionate.
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