and he measured that individual brain college's thomas landauer and he measured that an individual brain can store only one gigabyte of knowledge and not rest the smartphone right now and store only one gigabyte of knowledge and not smartphone right now can store tens of times more information that means that we have no way to store tens of times more information that means that we have no idea about lots of things around us and to make decisions or form opinions about about lots of things around us and to make decisions or form opinions about the things we don't know anything about we have to rely on other people's opinions which the things we don't know anything about we have to rely on other people's opinions which are based on other people's opinions and so on and so forth so without the ability or based on other people's opinions and so on and so forth so without the ability to get knowledge firsthand are we inevitably locked in this city to get knowledge firsthand are we inevitably locked in this sort of trap of wrong judgments well there's a couple things out of trap of wrong judg