His team came up with a series of Audio-Animatronics singing and dancing figurines put to a catchy multilingual tune titled “ It’s a Small World.” Here’s a video for you. In 1962 in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, which nearly started total nuclear annihilation, Walt Disney was hired by Pepsi-Cola to design an attraction for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York to benefit the UNICEF fund and help promote world peace. If you take a few minutes to read his brilliant and innovative essay, you would think his discussions were happening now and not 88 years ago, as they are just as relevant and interesting today. He bet us that, using no more than five individuals, one of whom is a personal acquaintance, he could contact the selected individual using nothing except the network of personal acquaintances.” We should select any person from the 1.5 billion inhabitants of the Earth - anyone, anywhere at all. One of us suggested performing the following experiment to prove that the population of the Earth is closer together now than they have ever been before. “A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy, back in 1929, in a long-forgotten, four-page story/essay titled Chains originally came up with the original concept as he wrote the following: See or .īut, really, the truth began far before our footloose friend was even born. You may have first heard about the theory from a weird friend at a party who said that all actors in Hollywood are connected back to Kevin Bacon in six movies or less.

Six degrees of separation describes the idea that all people (and things and places) in the world are just six or fewer interpersonal connections away from each other.

Six degrees of separation theory