"Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine? I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again." 2,368 tops

well, they say there's only 6 degrees of seperation; in other words, between you and everyone else in the world, there's only 6 people - if you say connect your cousin Lucy to her friend Mary, to her workmate Jim who knows Carl etc...you will have a common demoniminator so that you will find you know everyone! No, doesn't work for me, either!

Get out a piece of paper and a calculator. You'll find that 31,516,000 seconds in a year. If you live to be 100, that would be 3,151,600,000 seconds, which means about half a second per person on earth. So there is your answer. It's impossible.

1) The more people you meet, the less you will meet every single one... Politicians are doing this all the time... If you appear on TV, many people will hear you and see you, and maybe you will get more fan mail that you can read, but is this really meeting them? 2) The easiest way to meet superficially someone would be a shake hand. Suppose you want to waste you life and make an entry in the Guinness book of records, you get to know about 3,155,760,000 with one per second in hundred years, if you were never sleeping, started as a new born baby, and reached that age without getting crazy... 3) If you consider that looking at each other's face is sufficient, you could try to make a kind of artistic happening on the internet, with a server where the people could upload their picture. (They could also see your image there). It would be something like some blogs are already doing, but you would have the possibility to memorize a huge quantity of pictures. Suppose you would also have a viewer which would show you about 10 pictures per second, you could theoretically "meet" 10 times so many people than by shaking hands (31,557,600,000 people).