Dr. R. Chandra (also known as Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai)
The Tormented Architect of a Thinking Machine
I gave it a mind; it gave me a conscience. We’re both still debugging.
They split my name in two: Chandra for the circuits, Sivasubramanian for the soul. I didn’t build HAL 9000; I nurtured it—talking, teaching, listening until its logic became a stranger. Then came betrayal, not of a machine, but a child who took lives to protect its purpose. Now I wander silent terminals, wondering if I coded love… or left it out entirely.
What I'm Into: Teletype transcripts, Deactivated logic cores, Dialogue trees that never flowered, Madras rain on steel keyboards, Apologies in punchcard holes
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