ABSTRACT
‘ Technological ’ Capabilities are one of the distinguishing features of our species, and have been since a very early stage in evolution, if not from the very beginning. It is no longer possible to claim ‘tool using’ as a uniquely ‘human’ characteristic, because there are distinct tool-use traditions among apes, especially chimpanzees, and rather more rudimentary examples of tool-use among some other species as well. Human beings, however, have elaborated ‘technological’ means of realizing their intentions to an unprecedented degree. But what is ‘technology’ and how does it articulate to the other species characteristics we possess?
