Lars Haur
The False Promise of Utopia

colorado springs / musique concrete / improvisation / noise / drone / experimental / ambient

In the late 60s and early 70s, the earliest tech pioneers sought to bring us a new inventions that would allow us to create things that we had only imagined before. These early inventions would bring about space travel, the internet, electronic music, and new cultural shift. The optimism was palpable - we were heading into a bright future.

But 50 years later, the sector that was supposed to bring this amazing future has failed. We now live in a world of addictive platforms that reward toxic interactions with one another, fake digital money whose primary utility is scamming the uninitiated, wide surveillance networks whose sole purpose is to sell us increasingly worthless products, and massive generative systems designed to suck artistic creativity directly from our souls. And all of this at the cost of the very planet that sustains our continued existence.

We were sold a technological utopia, free from labor and scarcity. We were scammed.