An important goal of this course is to enable you to understand the computer and information-related issues in the New York Times. Storage Always more but never enough. Multimedia data and networks increase storage demands. Capacity increases from floppy drives to CD-ROMs to hard disks to tapes. Communications Always faster but never enough.
Networks can exchange data at fantastic rates.
Programs or software tell computers what to do. Software is the part of a computer system which doesn't break when you drop it. Software is now a bigger business than hardware. The key distinction is between programs and data. Programs tell what is to be done.