“A guy from Scotland goes 5490 miles to Tokyo and takes a picture of a girl taking a picture. She turns out to be from England, 413 miles away from him” and then “he posts the picture he took on a Website (in Canada, irrelevantly) and within 6 weeks the girl in the photo finds it”. Small world…(via kottke.org)
And then there was John Perry Barlow’s “Intimate Planet” experience. I feel as if the Global Village became real to me that night, and, indeed, it has become the Global Dinner Party. All at once. The small world has become the intimate world.. again Small world… (via Boing Boing)
Welcome to the “Global Dinner Party”