(/iːtɪˈɒlədʒi/)
Noun
1. The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
2. The study of causes or causation.
3. (medicine) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
… My high school Latin teacher taught me the ethic of de mortuis nil nisi bonum: Say nothing but good about the dead. But Toffler’s brand of futurism will not get us out of what future shock–related symptoms we may suffer. His current irrelevance stems from many causes, not the least of which is that Toffler misunderstood the underlying etiology of future shock and therefore offered the wrong prescription.
From the post: What the 1970 book ‘Future Shock’ got right (and wrong)
Source: Alvin Toffler was right about future shock but wrong about the solution (slate.com)
