âWe are the laggard partner in this co-evolution.â âShe said that Newry's success is not through external help but through the energy of the people that âcaptured the imagination of the whole of Ireland and even cajoled the laggard politicians.ââ
One type of neuron called the Purkinje cell, found in the cerebellum, may have as many as one hundred thousand synapses.How big is a synapse? [ii]Synapses are very small. This narrow gap of extracellular space is approximately 20-40 nanometers (nm) wide. For an idea of scale, one inch is about 25.4 million nm long. The thickness of a single sheet of paper is about 100,000 nm.[iii]How many synapses are in the human brain?[iv][v]Current studies estimate that the average adult male human brain contains approximately 86 billion neurons.
The Web holds about a trillion pages. The human brain holds about 100 billion neurons, Kelly writes in his 2010 book  What Technology Wants .. Each biological neuron sprouts synaptic links to thousands of other neurons, while each Web page on average links to 60 other pages.That adds up to a trillion 'synapses' between the static pages on the Web. The human brain has about 100 times that number of links -- but brains are not doubling in size every few years. group called the World Wide Web Foundation -- appropriately founded by Tim Berners-Lee, who pretty much created the internet -- is on a quest to figure out, with some degree certainty, how big the internet really is.