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| - Unlike the usual conception of time travel as depicted in movies and science fiction novels, TimePal's chrono-restoration™ technology has no effect on the space-time continuum. Instead, it non-invasively restores the customer to a previous emotional, psychological, and mental state — in effect, a highly comprehensive form of induced amnesia. The more time that is placed in the customer's TimePal account, the further back the customer can be restored. Given a sufficient account balance, a customer could be restored to the state of a new-born infant, or even that of a tiny fetus. The technology is currently somewhat limited, in that it is incapable of returning the customer to a pre-zygotic stage of development, such as a sperm cell. But this is likely to be fixed in version 2.0, due to be r
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| - Unlike the usual conception of time travel as depicted in movies and science fiction novels, TimePal's chrono-restoration™ technology has no effect on the space-time continuum. Instead, it non-invasively restores the customer to a previous emotional, psychological, and mental state — in effect, a highly comprehensive form of induced amnesia. The more time that is placed in the customer's TimePal account, the further back the customer can be restored. Given a sufficient account balance, a customer could be restored to the state of a new-born infant, or even that of a tiny fetus. The technology is currently somewhat limited, in that it is incapable of returning the customer to a pre-zygotic stage of development, such as a sperm cell. But this is likely to be fixed in version 2.0, due to be released 29, 2018. For all practical purposes, however, the primary limitation of the technology is that there is currently no way to prevent the customer's memory from being affected. While this is a major selling point in some cases, TimePal scientists have, so far, completely failed in their effort to make memory elimination "optional" — leading to criticism from the medical community that the process is simply a "brain-wipe." Indeed, once mentally restored to a previous state, the customer has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of having experienced the event (typically a mistake of some kind) that caused him to use the time credited to his TimePal account. Depending on the amount of regression, one might also not recall having created the account, having owned the computer with which the account was created, having learned how to use a computer, having learned to read, or even having ever existed. Customers are therefore free to make the same mistakes again, and often do, despite warnings from the TimePal website to place detailed written reminders nearby warning against this.
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