Abstract: When Socrates shifted the thought of “origin” from “nature” to “human affairs”， “technology” became an important topic of philosophy. The “technical thought” of ancient Greece is contained in the religious myth and the philosophical thought proposed after the wise and Socrates， while the natural philosophy of the pre-Socratic period is related to the “technological thought” of the philosophy at the conception level. Though the theory of “origin and everything”， “cosmogony” and “nous” in natural philosophy is a probe into the way of “creation” of “nature”， it， in the aspect of theoretical conception， affects the development of “technical knowledge”， “technological creation” and “technical purpose” in ancient Greek philosophy. The “generative theory” of “natural philosophy” gave birth to the converting of “technological thought” of ancient Greece from “religious myth” to philosophy， and the interpretation of “technology” by ancient Greek philosophy can be regarded as “inheritance” and “reengineering” of the “generation” mode of natural philosophy.

Key words: technology, origin and everything, generative theory, cosmology, nous