The tech we know in general isn't the tech this site thinks of when it says tech. Set up a qPCR run? Yes we got that. Anything information tech related? Ehh, not so much
We had thousands of years of technology before computational devices came along.
For example, there was a whole range of technology encompassed in the transition from rubbing 2 sticks together to start a fire to pocket size lighters.
The terms "developing new technologies" can be heard in the seminars in fields having nothing to do with computers, programming, or the internet. One would need a good background in calculus, partial differential equations, etc. to understand many of the talks.
