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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