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Our world is getting smaller

  • Written by Kristina Lerman, Project Leader at the Information Sciences Institute and Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Our world is getting smallerMany of us are connected some way, somehow.Arthimedes/Shutterstock.com

Has this happened to you? You strike up a conversation with a complete stranger, only to discover that you share surprising connections. My own brush with this phenomenon took place recently at a conference in Canada.

I was sharing a table with two strangers – one from...

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