hardware and software to terms you've
probably heard of at one point or
another the odds are high that you use
both on a daily basis whether it's with
your smartphone or personal computer
let's take a deeper look at what these
two things are and why they're important
hardware is any element of a computer
that's physical this includes things
like monitors keyboards and also the
insides of devices like microchips and
hard drives software is anything that
tells hardware what to do and how to do
it including computer programs and apps
on your phone so video games photo
editors and web browsers are just a few
examples hardware and software are very
different from each other but they also
need one another in order to function
let's look at an example of this using a
smart phone in this case the hardware
would be the physical phone itself and
the software would be its operating
system and its apps if we were to take
away the software we would just have a
dead phone in our hands it wouldn't be
able to make calls text or go online
because it's not receiving any kind of
instructions on the other hand let's say
we have no hardware meaning there's no
actual phone if all we have are the
programs we just have a bunch of
instructions but nothing to give those
instructions to so the big picture here
is that hardware needs software to tell
it what to do but software also needs
Hardware in order to act out its
directions technology will continue to
evolve and though we may not be sure of
how things will look in say a hundred
years this combination of hardware and
software will be there serving as its
foundation
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