2021/10/4 I've been mulling over the concept of technology and I'm not sure there's a line that can be drawn between what is and is not technology. Language is certainly technology as it is devised and used by us for our aims and is not relevant to any other type of living thing. When you use a tree for shade though, then the knowledge of the use of the tree for shade is also technology. Technology is knowledge as well as the actualization of that knowledge, such as how to make a knife, the knife itself, and how to use it. Perhaps it must also be considered to be objective knowledge. If you can't share it then it might be called something else. The use of a special ability that you can't teach probably wouldn't be considered technology. But if you can share it, like walking or washing your hands, then it probably is technology.
Try to imagine if you didn't know how to use a knife. If the concept of 'sharp' was not something you'd encountered. Hard to do but at least you can probably imagine how it would be to discover this concept. If you'd been biting through any rope or fabric that you wanted to change and you found out that this edge of rock could be used to quickly sever the rope it'd seem like magic. You'd probably cut yourself too, maybe even loose a finger or worse. Seems that we burn ourselves on every new technology that comes around.