I feel that depends on how you define technology. Last night I was watching “life” and I learned that over years, Capuchins have develeped a stratagey for cracking nuts with a big rock. But the younger ones had to trial and error the technique to perfect it. This is a form of “technology.” The reason I feel that this type of traditional technology is the root, is because this is the type of technology that we've learned and used to develope our modern technology for our own daily tasks. Its those little discoveries that humans take in and work over in our heads to try to develope new ways and techniques or “technologies” that will help our comming generations survive.