To find a definition of technology I would start with the meaning of the word itself. In this case, it's fine if I look it up on the internet (on the other hand, how can we know technology if not by using it!). So, Wikipedia tells us that in greek τεχνολογία [tekhnologhia] is composed, according to the grammar of the language, of τέχνη [techne] "art, skill", and λογία [loghía] "discourse, explanation" and therefore means: "systematic essay or explanation on an art or science".

The italian word tecnologia, although it is derived from ancient greek, it doesn't have such a long history. In fact, it entered in the common language from the Nineteenth century. At that time, at the word technology was given the meaning of "study of the procedures of a certain art or industry" or "study of the instructions for transforming a raw material into a finished product". Thus, the modern meaning of technology refers to practical problems associated with industrial production.

Today, the term technology is increasingly associated with the digital world (internet and social networks) or the world of engineering (energy, space, robotics...). In the second case, technology can be confused with technique, but it is wrong to use technology and technique as synonyms because they are not the same thing:

Technology is the process of creating machines capable of applying the principles of pure science;

Technique only allows those machines to work (by "machines" we also mean the Personal Computer).

Now let us ask ourselves what is Technology for us? For example, for me, technology is everything that was born after me and that I had to learn or have to learn - wasting a lot of time - because I was told that then I would do things so much faster! If you agree with this joking definition, it means that there is always a "before" and an "after" and this threshold moves forward with each generation. But according to a recent theory, technology originates with the first men on earth: if we think of the sharp pieces of stone used as knives by Homo Abilis and Homo Erectus, were they also technological tools? The answer is yes, because a technological object differs from any other object precisely because it is conceived, designed, and built by man for man.