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Skill path — volume 01
Foundations: How Everyday Technology Works
Start from zero and build a dependable mental model of computers, the internet, software, data, security, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.
- 1. What Is Technology? A Simple Explanation Beyond Gadgets2. Analog and Digital Information: How Reality Becomes Data3. Bits and Bytes: The Small Units Behind Digital Data4. Why Computers Use Binary: From Voltage to Zero and One5. How Binary Represents Numbers: Place Value with Powers of Two6. How Text Becomes Data: Unicode, Characters, and UTF-87. How Images Become Data: Pixels, Color, Resolution, and Files8. How Sound Becomes Data: Sampling a Wave into Numbers9. Compression: Making Files Smaller Without Losing Their Usefulness10. File Size, Storage, and Speed: Capacity Is Not Performance1.1.1 — What Is Technology? A Simple Explanation Beyond Gadgets11 min