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Drag thinks pretending that only electronics are technology is disrespectful to the scientists and engineers of the past who created technologies like the aqueducts, the roads, ships, kilns, swords, and recreational marijuana use. And it limits our ideas about what the future of technology can be, constraining us to a single vision of ever-more-complex computer systems as technology. Drag thinks we need a change in language to provoke a change in thinking. That will open up new directions in science. For example, meditation is a technology, and in the last 15 years psychologists have been pushing scientifically backed up meditation practices to help people. That's technological progress and it's good. We need to open our minds to possibilities like that.
Also here's a wikipedia article on the history of computer science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_science. Drag learned about the history of computer science from drag's teachers in school. Alan Turing and Von Neumann and Charles Babbage.
Stop referring to yourself in the third person using a screen name. Fuckin'... Just damn weird, man...
Let drag do dragggg !!… they’re feeling their oats
(this is an idiotic deep cut referencing a drag queen on Drag Race who was portrayed, by edit or by reality, as colossally dumb, but like, HILARIOUSLY so.)
Drag is referring to dragself in the first person using drag's drag/dragself pronouns.