concieved and approved by Angelo from #nano on EFnet Revised and commented by AlonzoTG * text = Comments What it's like to be a Borg: Some think that to become Borg precludes individuality. This is not so, the Borg collective is the ultimate individual. When everyone is assimilated, the Borg will be the only individual in existence. There will be no war, no arguments, no hunger, no disease (thanks to the nanobots). * Shreeves has noted that people often go insane when they're alone * perhaps a slightly varied version of this model is more appropriate.. * Minds would exist as the material in lavalamps. Joining, seperating, * adapting to the environment. It is borg technology that will grant us * this freedom. The Borg will be super intelligent, because they are the combined brains of all the individuals in existence. They will be the ultimate parallel processing computer. When you are assimilated you will no longer be "you". * This idea can be frightening to many. The cybernetics should be * designed to provide a variety of configurations to meet individual * needs. You will retain as much as you feel comfortable with. * Questions have been raised about the possible size of a single mind. Think about it as one drop of water combining with other to make a river and the river flowing into an ocean. One drop of water is almost nothing by itself, but a river is something so powerful that nothing can stand against it and it can erode away the hardest rock faces. Oceans cover two thirds of this planet and it is also the cradle of life. This is how the Borg will be.