Were told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past Hobart, 2022: a city with a declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the citys residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations: a factory whistle. GoFAs owner, world-famous billionaire Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. Hes going to defeat technologys dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948. Those whose jobs have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed: by living as if the internet had never been invented. The hold of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and their ilk starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out.
