In the late 20th Century V.O.E. (Very Old Era), before the Ascendancy of the Luddite
Multivirate, human technopeds had developed machine methods of freezing
sonic temporal sequences onto magnetostrictive and optically nudged
substrates, so that they could be reproduced at any subsequent moment in
what the ancients quaintly called "time".

After the subsequent Victory of the Luddite Founders, all machine-based
technoped activity came to be outlawed. Eventually,
the space-time bubble was discovered to be subject to coherent thought
manipulation from the Central Collective mindbrain, and the flow of pure
uncorrelated time ceased altogether.

Thanks to the wisdom of the Luddite Multivirate, all mankind and its
codependent biomineral sentient life forms learned to contribute their Aura
to the Central Effort, and all manifestations of the physical universe -
past, present, and "future" -came to be experienced at will, simultaneously,
by any individual being.

The dawn of the 21st century, Old Era, saw the beginning of the end of
uncorrelated, irreversible time flow altogether, and the consequences for
our evolutionary growth 5000 years later are still efflorescing in
unpredictable and marvelous ways.

In the current era, even nascent embryons are capable of experiencing all
past, present, and future sensates at any single integrated moment of what
the ancients called "time" - !!

(anonymous entry in the Encyclopaedia Galactica, 6999 A.D.)