Viewed from a historical perspective, Kurenniemi's music foretold digital directions in rhythm, noise and jump-cut editing, only back then no one was listening. - The Wire A film about Erkki Kurenniemi, the human memory, computers and immortality.

Erkki Kurenniemi's career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. His project of collecting everything around him will perhaps be the most significant of all his works. Kurenniemi records his thoughts, observations, objects and images constantly, with manic precision, with the ultimate goal of merging man and machine - reconstructing the human soul.

Kurenniemi's story is a fascinating and forceful depiction of a forgotten visionary; it is significant because of the cultural history of the unique, never-before-seen archive material. The documentary includes footage of his unique DIMI (Digital Music Instrument) series, and segments from unfinished experimental short films from the 1960s.

The Future Is Not What It Used To Be is a film about the 1960's avant-garde in music and film, the early history of microcomputers and the open questions of twenty-first-century science.