1. Watson, A Mind In the Clouds How it works: Natural language processing. Hypothesis generation and evaluation. Evidence based learning. How it affects us: Might revolutionize search engines. Will greatly ease the amount of info sifting. Reduce inaccuracies due to false info. Speed up the research process. Allow for quick reference. Revolutionize customer support. How does that increase the Digital Divide? You pay to use it. Not as much need to organize data. Has issues with slang and dialects. Requires training itself. Requires training to support. Cost. What it does: It now processes the data cloud. Provides fast and accurate information. Might revolutionize search engines.

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