Technology is a means of control. Human started with tool and gradually grew them into sophisticated system of technology.
According to Britannica "By the early 20th century, the term embraced a growing range of means, processes, and ideas in addition to tools and machines. By mid-century, technology was defined by such phrases as “the means or activity by which man seeks to change or manipulate his environment.” Technology, the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.
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The bow and arrowwere an even more effective combination, the use of which is clearly demonstrated in the earliest “documentary” evidence in the history of technology