Rolf The Dobelle. The philosophy of the good life (№ 400127)

American psychologist Thomas Landauer was the first to formulate a scientific argument about the amount of information that can memorize the average person. "Whichever technique it is used, the answer was roughly the same: one Gigabyte. He did not claim that this answer is absolutely accurate. But even if he was wrong tenfold, even if people are able to retain ten times more or less than the gigabytes of information, the volume is still insignificant. This is only a small part of what we are able to maintain a modern laptop. People - not repositories of knowledge.