Via Etymology Online:
technology(n.)
1610s, “a discourse or treatise on an art or the arts,” from Latinized form of Greek tekhnologia “systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique,” originally referring to grammar, from tekhno-, combining form of tekhnē “art, skill, craft in work; method, system, an art, a system or method of making or doing,” from PIE *teks-na- “craft” (of weaving or fabricating), from suffixed form of root *teks- “to weave,” also “to fabricate.” For ending, see -logy.
The meaning “study of mechanical and industrial arts” as a branch of knowledge (Century Dictionary, 1895, gives as examples “spinning, metal-working, or brewing”) is recorded by 1859. High technology is attested by 1956; short form high-tech by 1972.