Proof the cable management is optional and doesn’t have an effect on the computers ability to work
That’s an effect on your ability to work, not the computers. The computer still doesn’t care.
Is cable management actually bad for computers? If it make the wires 10% longer to accommodate the aesthetic shapes we like, then that’s 10% more time it takes for the 1s and 0s to reach their destination. I guess what I’m saying is my lack of cable management is actually a productivity hack
The Borg don’t have that problem. Every drone knows everything the hive knows and the hive never forgets. Therefore every drone knows which cable to replace, should the need arise.
It’s nice having a bionic eye that is directly connected to an Enterprise Content Management system which has schematics and engineering diagrams for:
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Aforementioned cables, terminal blocks, pigtails and splices, homerun cables, and associated electrical and instrumentation loop diagrams
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Piping and Instrumentation diagrams for all ship systems, including revision level document management
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Plan and structural drawings of each Cube, with calculations
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Environmental/equipment qualification documentation
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Certificates of Compliance from Hive manufacturers, tracing materials back to their original source. These would also need to confirm to Hive QA programs and traceable Hive-wide standards, where applicable.
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Indexed and catalogued maintenance work orders
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Legacy documentation from previous species who were assimilated
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Indexing and cataloguing newly encountered species’ technology and uploading it to the database
Also the eye would be Augmented Reality so the drone can tell exactly what it is just by looking at it.
Ah so they’re running in RAID 1 then. That’s a lot of data to transfer if they’re all constantly updating, definitely recommend upgrading to fiber-optic.
Or trust me I have. Imagine if you will a house from the 1930s with the internet cable running from the opposite side of the house as the router. However the wire is deliberately put through as many rooms as possible on the way to the router and super glued into place as though it’s fine to trip on a wire 5 times to get to a room.
Cable management doesn’t matter if:
- You only care if it works
- You have the accumulated memories of trillions of prior drones, including the ones who built that mess in the first place, so you already know what each cable does and where it goes.
I built the mess under my desk, that doesn’t mean I know what the cables do any more.
I dunno, I always thought it was meant to mimic organics.
“Cable management” inside the human body is horrendous. So it felt like in the mixing of machine and biology, the machines had to become more biological in the way they worked to function properly in tandem with the Borg biology.
That’s exactly it. Cable management is a top-down design philosophy. The Borg are a collective that organically integrates biological, mechanical, electronic, and any other systems that they find useful–it’s quite literally the polar opposite of a top-down design philosophy.
It would be more surprising if the Borg had tidy cable management, because that implies some hierarchy. Actually, the Borg cubes are a little out of place in that regard. Spheres or fractal-ish structures would make more sense.
because that implies some hierarchy
Yup. See: Conway’s Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway’s_law
This indeed works in both directions and it’s possible to gain some insight into an organization based on its behavior and output.
Plus when the cables get broken / damaged, the cube just fixes itself like a biological healing, there aren’t borg drones out working on the hull
I don’t know, the drones in First contact didn’t had an issue working on the hull of the Enterprise. But Enterprise hull might be an edge case, as in “Not really Borg but soon”-technology.
On the other Hand, the Borg assimilate anything they get their cable management on (eg. the doctors mobile holographic emitter).
But I don’t really know much of the deeper Borg lore.
It’s for when they run out of regeneration alcoves
It’s not that they hadn’t found a cure for bad cable management, it’s that by the 24th century nobody would care.
