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Don't project the future through the same eyes you observe the past with.
Things like this usually don't happen because unless it was more than 100 years the past there is empirical accounts of whatever it is theyre pondering about.
The other side is how noone has gotten to the point of studying the history of technology. I mean I'm under 40 and I remember life with no internet in the house muchness in your pocket.
Also dont forget were recording humanity at an unprecedented scale now and show no signs of slowing. There will likely be a flood of media and resources to actually watch how most shit in the past was done 100-500 years from now.
Drag is pretty sure lots of archeologists have studied technology. For example there was the search for the recipe for Roman concrete.
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.