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EPISODE 1

"The Skill Nobody Taught You"

Chapter Alignment: Chapter 1: What Is a Computer, Really?

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Most people spend hours every day on a computer and still cannot explain what it actually does. Not because they are unintelligent. Not because they lack motivation. Because nobody ever took the time to teach them properly.

In this premiere episode of Computer Literacy Unlocked — the podcast companion to the free book from Global Sovereign University — Dr. Gene A. Constant, Navy and Marine Corps veteran, Doctor of Business Administration, and author of more than 120 books, opens the machine and shows you what is inside.

We start at the beginning: the Central Processing Unit, the brain of every computer, executing billions of instructions per second. The RAM, the short-term memory that holds everything you are currently working on — and disappears the moment you turn off the power. The hard drive or SSD, your permanent storage, the place where your files, photos, and programs actually live. The GPU that handles everything you see on screen. And the motherboard, the silent backbone connecting every component into one working system.

But this episode is not a hardware catalog. It is a philosophy lesson. Dr. Constant argues that understanding what a computer IS — not just how to click through menus — is the difference between a user and a sovereign. A user depends on the machine. A sovereign commands it. When you understand the Input-Process-Output model that governs every single thing a computer does, you stop being intimidated by technology and start being its master.

By the end of this episode, you will understand why your computer slows down when too many programs are open, why saving your work matters, why some computers cost five times more than others, and why the $300 laptop and the $3,000 workstation are fundamentally doing the same thing — just at vastly different speeds.

This is not a podcast for IT professionals. It is a podcast for the fifty-year-old professional who quietly panics when new software gets introduced at work. For the college student who can navigate TikTok but cannot format a resume. For the veteran who served with distinction but freezes at an online job application. For the senior who avoids telehealth because the technology feels like a foreign language.

Computer literacy is not a luxury. And it starts here.

Companion resource: Play the free BookGame "Computer Autopsy" at GlobalSovereignUniversity.org to test what you have learned through interactive challenges with Bronze-to-Platinum badge progression. GENO, your AI tutor, is standing by in 32 languages.

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