Create a human hive mind

[GTOM]

I was inspired by Jane Hawk trilogy of Dean Koontz. The villains injected people with brain control nanobots, and the possessed humans could form a hive mind.
The villain try to do something similar in my story, that is supposed to be rather scientifically realistic, not space fantasy. On the other hand, she cant inject all the people in a town, the nano have to get in by drinkwater, so only a tiny amount for each victim. Is it a bottleneck, how the possessed people will be able to receive and emit radio waves, to act like one supermind? Maybe the nanobots should extract the trace elements of the body? If that dont result in fast death, later the trace elements can replaced by medicines.

 

[jedishrfu]

Imagine a computer network that is how your hive mind might work. The central authority broadcasts messages to every member at the same time, or the central authority sends out a more selective message to certain hive members to do a task.

These four basic message types can be found in ZeroMQ:

• REQ–REP: “Ask and answer.” Client sends one message; server must reply. Lockstep.
• PUB–SUB: “Broadcast and listen.” The publisher sends it to anyone who is subscribed.
• PUSH–PULL: “Pipeline tasks.” PUSH distributes tasks; PULL receives them.
• PAIR: “Just two endpoints.” For inproc or one-to-one connections. No routing or patterns.

So Hive Command does a PUB-SUB (ie all Hive members have subscribed) to activate its army. During the course of a battle, Hive Command sends out specific messages to small groups or to single Hive members to execute some task. They must respond with a status update.

Bottlenecks could occur when Hive Command launches multiple foreys using smaller attack groups, which then respond with numerous status messages, swamping the network and slowing it down.

You could factor it into your story. It's always good that both good and bad actors have weaknesses to exploit.