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Whether it is early man’s first use of fire or the birth of the space shuttle, innovation has always been the major catalyst behind the success of mankind. Some of these breakthroughs brought about immediate change, while others humbly laid the groundwork for important developments down the road.
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Two things lurk deep at the heart of the digital love story. It’s not “me” and “you.” It’s “0” and “1.”
The analytics that are helping people find a better match are just one place where science informs contemporary life. Big Data may be unromantic, but it’s powerful and efficient. It’s helping wannabe lovers as well as scientists to find new meanings and hidden patterns in piles of data and build better robots, decode the brain, and, yes, avoid a bad first date.