A timely article in yesterday’s New York Times:

“A history of the humanities in the 20th century could be chronicled in “isms” — formalism, Freudianism, structuralism, postcolonialism — grand intellectual cathedrals from which assorted interpretations of literature, politics and culture spread.

“The next big idea in language, history and the arts? Data.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html