The mind behind ‘The Augmented Man’

Rika Chandra
8 min readApr 19, 2021

The pandemic is now hopefully at its tail end, but it has raised some very valid and pertinent questions. What is our new normal? How will we interact, behave, communicate and work? These metamorphic and evolutionary changes have been speculated in many sci-fi books, journals, articles, prophesy’s and the like — one such close analogy is the movie ‘Contagion’, which eerily holds up a mirror to many of the challenges we are facing today.

Likewise, as we look ahead to the future, we can draw on many parallels in current day science fiction, and there are many plausible…

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Rika Chandra

Artist, Architect, Designer and Writer with a geeky passion for spreadsheets and a curiosity about people, history and cognitive dissonance.