"The psychographer is jammed again."

IBM's Dave Turek has identified retrieval of the vast amounts of digital data being produced as one of the great challenges of the near future, reports The Globe & Mail.

With so much information being produced and shared it's not so much storage Turek believes to be a problem, but retrieval. The volume of new data being produced, either by humans or the machines they've created, has the potential to become unwieldier still.

The need to get more information quickly is driving the necessity of better retrieval tools. Financial market analysts, doctors and a host of other professions have need for real-time answers, something that will only become more difficult at the rate new data is being produced.