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The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest. **Electronic environments** can be defined as functional combinations of hardware and embedded software in the real world – that is, circuits, prototypes or products. In Technology, **physical Environment** commonly refers to the location of the specific practice or the place where a final Outcome will be located. In Technology, **social Environment** refers to the Context of a group or groups of people and their interaction with a technological Outcome and/or its development. (A subset of a socio-cultural Environment.) In Technology, **socio-cultural Environment** refers to the combination of the social and cultural (including historical) Context within which a technological Outcome is developed or used. **Socio-technological Environment** refers to the Context(s) created by the interaction of Technological outcomes and non-technological entities and systems. Socio-technological environments include such things as communication networks and hospital transport systems. Exploration of these environments shows how Technological outcomes (products and systems) and non-technological entities and systems (people, natural environments, political systems etc) interact together.