The article surveys a wide range of technology, including machine translation, corpus linguistics, translation memory systems, terminology and controlled language. The chapter summarizes the wide field of technology and translation, linking specific advances in computing and communication, for example, the standardization of infrastructure and computing languages that enables data to be shared and tools to be open-access. Such developments underlie the global transformation in the commercial translation sector, affecting all aspects of translation practice including the status and identity of the translator him/herself.