Watching Watson, the IBM-built supercomputer that handily beat the human competitors on “Jeopardy!,” I couldn’t help feeling smug about how smart we are. After all, hundreds of researchers and programmers fed Watson with millions of bits of information and electronically equipped it with the power to process all that data. Whereas, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter had spent their entire life painstakingly acquiring knowledge and using their prodigious brain power to recall, process and produce it in a split second without any electronic assistance. Then again, Watson is also a triumph of human creativity and is now poised to triumph in human consumption as well – apparently, IBM will make such computing capabilities commercially available very soon. Considering that Watsons can easily substitute humans in providing medical and banking assistance, not to mention customer and technical support for any consumer product or service, they are bound to displace mainly Indians in the outsourced world. But will it stop there? What about marriage counselors and stock analysts? Almost any human job that involves finding answers or solutions will be in jeopardy. And what is to prevent Watson from running for public office (as long as it is made in America)? Can a senator compete with Watson’s ability to find a way to cut the budget deficit without taxing the super rich? What is duh?