I think this is a question that somebody will be able to answer to a reason­able degree of accuracy even today: what is the memory capacity of the human brain? We can recall a lot of things in our environ­ment in different forms, so it seems like there’s a lot of inbuilt memory, but much of what we remember is inaccu­rate and in a condensed form. So taking this into consid­er­a­tion, how much — in bytes — can we really store in our brains?

I think I read about this somewhere…but I can’t remember!

Update 2006-03-27 10:14: This article on a woman with a perfect memory is interesting.

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