What is technology?

Knowing what technology actually means, denotatively speaking, will allow me to approach this program differently.  I used to assume that technology was limited to anything with computers or electronic devices.  My dad builds amazing sound systems with huge amplifiers and subwoofers and such.  Though I could always appreciate what he was able to build, I never liked it because it all looked so complicated; as a kid, he would tease me and say that I could grow up and do the same thing he did.  He was fully aware that I wasn't interested.  Well, I always thought that that was what technology was, any thing electronic and complicated.  And because I knew I struggled with it, I thought that this was the perfect program for me to lean how to cope with technology.  Now that I know what it actually is (any set of newly designed system, or craft or order that will allow an animal or human to better "control" or "adapt" to its environment), I think that I can better enjoy this program and not be so intimidated by it.  To think that writing and speaking is in its own write a form of technology?  Wow.  I never thought of it that way.  I guess that being an English teacher also makes me a teacher of technology!  Wa La!.  (Hey, you know what I mean, right?!!)  I just experienced a whole new paradigm shift!!!  ha ha!

Derek