Is my iPhone kaput for good?

Can I somehow reboot my iphone if the screen is black? Tried to sync my 4s iphone to my Mac home computer but my computer indicates it doesn't recognize my phone.  Computer encouraged. me  to download most  recent version of iTunes but I wasn't able to do so.  Now I have a black screen, white apple, and a horizontal bar that is slowly filling in.  After 24 hrs, the horizontal line still wasn't filled in.  I believe the line/bar is an indication of how far along the reset of the i phone is back to its initial settings.  Any suggestions?

Let's start with your Mac.  Is it very old?  Is it running a very old operating system?  The most recent version of iTunes is 11.0.1, which you will need to communicate with iOS 6 (approximately).  If your Mac or OS X is too old, you won't be able to use the latest iTunes on it.
Now let's discuss your iPhone.  What version of iOS was it running before the attempted upgrade?  If you were still on iOS 4, you will have to use iTunes to upgrade.  If you were on iOS 5 or 6, you may be able to upgrade without a computer.
Once we know more, we can help more.

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