Ace Dreamer wrote:
Fiction has some remarkably precise devices which mess with people's memories, but I'm not sure how much you could get handwavium to cooperate in this sort of thing.

HRogge wrote:
I think they developed it from some "quick-learning" device some other Fen invented.

Correct. Specifically, it's a development of the sleep-learning device that was invented by the unfortunate cab-driver who became Tabitha Doe.

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