Alexander Chislenko, A Singularitarian Before His Time

On the sidebar to the right, you will find a link titled "Sasha,a Man Before His Time". If you click on the link you will discover an incredible array of links, many you may not have seen before. Sasha's page is one of the first true treasures I discovered when I started exploring the web.

Sasha Chislenko moved to Boston in 1989, from then Leningrad, then USSR. He was looking for freedom, and fellow futurists. His vision was broad and deep, and he found much of what he sought, although not all. He is not with us any longer, but he left a legacy that will not die as long as futurists, singulatarians, extropians, transhumanists, and others who promote human evolution continue the quest. During the years that Sasha posted to his website, he acquired a large number of web admirers. Many of them have left messages in Sasha's guestbook.

When navigating Sasha's website, you will find a number of websites that have been lost, in one way or another. You may want to get acquainted with Archive.org, a very useful website also listed here, at the top of the sidebar. With archive.org, you can actually find and navigate many websites that are otherwise lost to us.

Many younger futurists do not understand why they should be interested in "history." For some, history is anything that did not happen in the past six months. The fact is, human nature has not changed much in the past thirty or forty thousand years. No matter how intelligent a person may be, without the element of perspective in his thinking, he will probably create a great deal of nonsense. Here is a set of history links for general history research. But everything has history. Every conceivable topic has a history. If you are involved in an occupation, profession, vocation--and do not know the history of that occupation--you are handicapped.

Sasha Chislenko became part of the history of the early web discussions of futurism and what was to become transhumanist, extropian, and singularity thinking. Thanks for your work, Sasha, wherever you are.