The odds are high that you use both on a daily basis, whether it's with your smartphone or personal computer

你每天都會使用這兩樣東西的機率很高，無論是智能手機還是個人電腦。

Let's take a deeper. Look at what these two things are and why they're important

讓我們來深入瞭解一下。看看這兩件事情是什麼，為什麼重要？

hardware is any element of a computer that's physical this includes things like monitors keyboards and also the insides of devices like

硬件是指計算機的任何物理元素，這包括像顯示器鍵盤和設備內部的東西，如

microchips and hard drives

微芯片和硬盤

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

軟件是任何告訴硬件做什麼和如何做的東西，包括電腦程序和手機上的應用程序。所以視頻遊戲

Photo editors and web browsers are just a few examples

照片編輯器和網絡瀏覽器只是幾個例子。

Hardware and software are very different from each other, but they also need one another in order to function

硬件和軟件之間有很大的不同，但它們也需要彼此才能發揮功能

Let's look at an example of this using a smart phone in this case

我們來看一個例子，在這個案例中使用智能手機

The hardware would be the physical phone itself and the software would be its operating system and its apps

硬件是實體手機本身，軟件是它的作業系統和應用。

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

如果我們把軟件拿掉的話，我們手中的手機就會變成一個死機，就不能打電話了。

Text or go online because it's not receiving any kind of instructions on the other hand

發短信或上網，因為它沒有收到任何形式的訓示，在另一方面

Let's say we have no hardware. Meaning there's no actual phone if all we have are the programs

比如說我們沒有硬件。意思是說，如果我們只有程序的話，就沒有真正的手機了

We just have a bunch of instructions, but nothing to give those instructions to

我們只有一堆指令，但沒有任何東西可以給這些指令。

So the big picture here is that hardware needs software to tell it what to do

所以這裡的大意是，硬件需要軟件來告訴它該怎麼做。

But software also needs Hardware in order to act out its directions

但是，軟件也需要硬件來執行它的指令。

Technology will continue to evolve and though we may not be sure of how things will look in say a hundred years this

技術將繼續發展，儘管我們可能無法確定比如說一百年後的情況如何，但這是一個很好的機會。

Combination of hardware and software will be there serving as its foundation

硬件和軟件的結合將是其基礎。

GCF global creating opportunities for a better life

全球基金為更美好的生活創造機會