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So, let's get in that habit of clear definitions by creating one for technology:

Technology is the application of some effect, usually scientific, to get work done.

The word “technology” can also be used for two other levels of meaning:

1 A collection of things that work similarly, like construction technology.

2 The whole class of human effort that creates tools for a given culture, like digital technology.

We are going to focus on the first meaning. It is important to think at this level first, because you will be dealing with specific products not big groupings or abstract classes of products.

When faced with a new technological product, like construction software, we can be struck by what we don't know, struck by how different it feels from how we've done things in the past. But technologies do not come from nowhere. To be of any use, a new machine, process, or software will have been developed so you can do something you already do, just faster, safer, or cheaper.