Can the brain hold a zottabyte?
Wouldn't it be cool to pull out your thoughts like the wizards do in Harry Potter? Thin, silvery threads of thoughts all stashed in a pensieve ready to be activated upon when needed. I do wonder how we hold so much information in our brains – just think of all the numbers you've got in there. Social Security number, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates… There's an infinite amount of bytage in our brains – more than a brontobyte, I'm sure. Check out this chart from the Ask a Storage Expert dude:
- 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
- 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
- 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
- 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
- 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
- 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte – In 2000, 3 exabytes of information was created
- 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
- 1000 Zettabyte = 1 Zottabyte
- 1000 Zottabyte = 1 Brontobyte – that is a 1 followed by 27 zeroes
