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The word and concept are derived from the Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An organization of autonomous organisms that exhibit collectivism: individual "units" that have merged to yield a unified construct and may have a collective consciousness. Full definition →
The word and concept are derived from the Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.