One answer is that technology is a means to an end. The other understands technology as a human activity. These definitions belong together and both hold true whether we are talking about anything from construction to farming, even with regards to modern developments in these fields. Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. The earth now reveals itself as a coal-mining district.
Nature is seen differently through technology.
It sits idle, waiting for us to come and use it. Through technology we see nature as profit that we can develop or extract for ourselves. When we begin to observe and investigate, we ensnare nature as an area of our own conceiving. The revealing of our Being challenges us to approach nature as an object of research, until the object loses its objectness and becomes standing-reserve. Thus, modern technology is a revealing of the world to us.