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Fred attempted to force out a weak smile, but from his
mouth, like fidgety worms, teeth that were falling out
began to crawl. The studio audience, which till this point
had been hypnotically silent, suddenly burst into applause.
Fred stuck his teeth back into his mouth. Everyone drawn
at that moment to the TV screen was stunned. But the
professor finally took pity on the audience and, resetting
the chronomatizer into the mode of a time injector, infused
the lost years back into Fred’s body. His assistant’s
organism in just a few seconds managed the return path, to
age 25.
Thus with that event the era of temporal technologies
began. Humanity once and for all lost its moral virtue, or
rather what was left of that virtue, but if you are truthful, it
was more like the memory of its virtue that it had already
lost long ago.
Futurologists have not yet managed to publish all their
prognostications, but the invention has already surpassed
all potentialities in actual practice. It produced stunning
fruits that have flowed like uncontrolled lava. Certainly,
Coifman declared the essentially humanist principles of
chronopheresis. Let’s say, for example, the parents of an
incurably ill person acquired the possibility under state
supervision to give their ill child several years each from
their own body’s life. In this way, it would seem artificial to
maintain the sick individual in that state of his organism’s