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I had always envisioned technology as a created system or device -- eg, a
tool built for a purpose.  Thus, designing and completing an experiment in which
two rocks are dropped at the same time and observed as they fall, since it
doesn't require "a technological tool" would be different from, say, observing an
ant using a magnifying glass (which does require a technological tool).

Is this incorrect?
Any apparatus or procedure one would use to conduct experiments and measure
the results is technology. You can't do Galileo's gravity experiments or
Darwin's research without technology.

Lisa Jo Rudy, Writer/Consultant
625 Chelten Hills Drive
Elkins Park, PA 19027
www.lisarudy.com
215-635-9735

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