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You can be forgiven for thinking that Facebook does all of its product innovation through Big Data, analyzing the activities of its billion users and coming up with a nicely wrapped solution based on a weighted majority of crowd preferences.

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By the time we get through collecting and analyzing data and creating plans to deal with the imagined scenario, the world has changed to the point that our data may already be obsolete.

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