Introduction: Antifragile Augmented Communities

Abstract

Several analysts had been pointing their eyes on searching the apparition of the unexpected “black swan”, when a “gray rhino” (a well-known risk that we want to ignore) began to run furiously towards us by announcing the leap in the level of the environmental crisis, the umpteenth consequence of climate change on our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic, in fact, after numerous unheard alarms (Meadows, Meadows et al., 1972; Rockström et al., 2009), was the signal that the planet sent to our species to warn us to change: 98% of the Earth (nature) rebelled against the enormous environmental impact produced by the voracity of 2% (cities).