"In the Year 2525" is a hit song from 1969 by the Lincoln, Nebraska duo Zager & Evans which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks commencing July 12.
The song was written by Rick Evans in 1964 and originally released on a small regional record label (Truth Records) in 1968. A year later, an Odessa, Texas radio station popularized the disc, which RCA Records quickly picked up for nationwide distribution.
The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him. It includes a colloquial reference to the Second Coming (In the year 7510, if God's a-coming, He ought to make it by then.), which echoed the zeitgeist of the Jesus Movement.
The song also references examples of technologies and concepts that were not fully developed but were known to the public in 1969, such as robots, as well as future technology that would come into existence long before their prediction in the song, the science of In vitro fertilisation and genetic selection by parents of their future children.
The song has no chorus. Amid ominous-sounding orchestral music, the final dated chronological verse is, "In the year 9595, I'm kinda wonderin' if Man is gonna be alive.He's taken everything this old Earth can give, and he ain't put back nothing in, whoa-whoa...,"
Futurama did a remake of this lol:
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