Marc Andreessen, true inventor of the Internet, noted venture capitalist and Silicon Valley man-about-town, thinks that there are three "next big things" in technology: Bitcoin, online education and health software.

Google's world-conquering execs Larry Page and Sergey Brin have made a bet on the self-driving car, while genius child-emperor Mark Zuckerberg has bet on virtual reality. Now those guys may be titans of tech, but dang it, I'm a sci-fi fan, and I read the news, which means that you should listen to my idea about what the Next Big Technology really is.

I think it's cyborgs.