It's hard to predict what the next big thing will be in technology.
But IBM is looking at how much "smarter" computers can get with Watson, its new "cognitive computing" technology.
IBM stresses that computers must become smarter for the good of the world to handle the exponential rise in data as people increasingly blog, tweet and upload every detail of their lives to the Internet via social media and digitized books.
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