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It is also related to the source of the word "cybernetics".
by irickt 11y ago
It is also related to the source of the word "cybernetics".
- fixermark 11y agoCorrect, which is how it slants to the "Borg cube" pun. Cybernetics was the term chosen by Norbert Wiener in the book "Cybernetics," and he traced the word's origin to the greek "kubernetes;" it related to his first example of a cybernetic system, the self-correcting steam-controlled rudder on a ship [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_engine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_engine]. (Why the pun? Kubernetes was heavily inspired / guided by Google's internal scheduling tool, which was named Borg (http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes.html http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubern...).)