Good technology will also be robust, less prone to breakdowns and malfunctions. Reliability seems like an obvious point but is frequently overlooked in less critical environments. Software which crashes instead of running is obviously bad technology. Telephone systems which connect you to India instead of Indiana are not useful. Doing 'what you want it to do' is a highly personal thing.
Parents often criticize teens' clothes because they represent bad technology.
If you want clothes to protect you from the cold, then your daughter's selection of light chiffon and an ultra-mini represents bad technology. But if you want clothes to accentuate your physical features, then the same clothes represent good technology. No technology is perfect. No technology will satisfy all nine rules. But some technologies will satisfy more of these rules than others.