5. Explain why a washing machine would be considered technology.

It's technology because it does a certain service for you with less time wasted if you did it by hand.

Explanation:

In 1993, based on radiometric analyses of the rock, and the shape of fossils, Schopf dated them as biological beings that existed 3.45 billion years ago. ... The rock, already dated as 3.5 billion years old, has now been shown to contain the remains of simple biological life as old as the rock they were found in.