What is technology--My answer

I wish I could find the reference that got me onto this line of thinking, but I really tried to decide for myself what technology was without asking my friend Google for help and by the time I came up with a definition that I was comfortable with, and then decided that I stole it from someone else, I couldn't figure out who I stole it from. So, here it is:

Technology is anything that was invented after you were.

This means many things, but possibly the most important is that things that you probably consider advances in technology, your students consider everyday and mundane. Think about it, I have incoming 9th graders who have no conscious memory of life before the internet. To me the internet is absolutely amazing, to my new students, the internet is pencil and paper.

I myself am a pretty young dude and I have a serious chuckle every time I see one of my talented coworkers mumbling over the copy machine and reminiscing about the smell of mimeograph paper (or is it ink? that's the point, I really don't know). A copy machine is no where near technology to me. It's a pencil and paper. I never knew life without it.

I'm starting to worry myself the more I think about this. CD's are not technology, computers are not technology, search engines, email, chat rooms, video games...nope. Pencils? Still nope.

So what does qualify? That's a question for another day.