That's what anthropologists do when they look at the alien skeletons of our ancient forbears. If an ape skull is to be called human, the area around it must show evidence of serious tool-making. The very word technology helps us understand this process. Tecnh is the work of a sculptor or a stonemason, a composer or a clock-maker. Ology is the study or the lore of something.
Technology is the knowledge of making things.
We freed our hands by walking on our hind legs before we took up tool-making. When we made our earliest stone tools 2.4 million years ago, our brains were still fairly small. Our capacity for thought began growing after we began making sophisticated implements. Thinking and tool-making are wed to one another. The idea that technology drives our minds is disquieting.