Except maybe for Brainy Smurf

[alice malice]

Today nobody could get away with making such a distinction. Since
1959, we have come to live among flows of data more vast than anything
the world has seen. Demystification is the order of our day, all the
cats are jumping out of all the bags and even beginning to mingle. We
immediately suspect ego insecurity in people who may still try to hide
behind the jargon of a specialty or pretend to some data base forever
''beyond'' the reach of a layman. Anybody with the time, literacy and
access fee these days can get together with just about any piece of
specialized knowledge s/he may need. So, to that extent, the
two-cultures quarrel can no longer be sustained. As a visit to any
local library or magazine rack will easily confirm, there are now so
many more than two cultures that the problem has really become how to
find the time to read anything outside one's own specialty.

History: the key to decoding big data


http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/history-the-key-to-decoding-big-data/2016026.article
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