Word: hindsight
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Today, with hindsight, David Twitchell "would not wait one day [to seek medical treatment] if he thought his son was in a life-threatening situation," Klieman said...
...time when data moved on horses and ships, Samuel Morse inaugurated the information age in 1835 by translating messages into electric signals and telegraphing them at nearly the speed of light. With 20/20 hindsight, it is tempting to view today's networked and digitized world as the inevitable culmination of Morse's breakthrough technology. That would be a mistake, however. Technological change has been marked by fits, starts and left turns, and the clues to the future have often been hidden in the clutter of the present...
This is no doubt partly because of the opinion of most Harvard alumni at the time of Roosevelt's death that he was a "traitor to his class," although historical hindsight can argue that he did much to avert class warfare in this nation and the march of totalitarianism abroad...
...hindsight, Koch still defends his outspokenstyle as mayor. The people of New York, he says,demand that a mayor take a vocal stand on almostevery issue, even foreign policy matters...
Despite admitting that they have much to learn in hindsight, several local and national journalists said they stand by their extensive coverage of the recent Carol Stuart murder case...