The Habit of Change by David Alan Grier appears in the October 2011 issue of Computer.
An interesting account of the differences in how statisticians and computer science data miners view the processing of data. And how new techniques crowd out old ones and little heed is paid to prior results. Not all that undeserved, the lack of heed for prior results, because prior waves of change had the same disdain for their predecessors.
Not that I agree with that disdain, but it is good to be reminded that if we paid a bit more attention to the past, perhaps we could make new mistakes rather that repeating old ones.
Note that we also replace old terminologies with new ones, which makes matching up old mistakes with current ones more difficult.
Apologies for the link above that takes you to a pay-per-view option.
If you like podcasts, try: The Known World: The Habit of Change being read by David Alan Grier.