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Integrated Course Book 4 Unit 2 Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. According to the song, will the world be a better or a worse place in a few hundred years time?2. Will the use of drugs to change the way we think and feel be common in the future?3. What does the song writer feel about the future? Is he optimistic or not?4. Do you share the views of the song writer about the effects of modern science and technology on man in the future? What will the world be like in five hundred years time? A thousand years time? Or more? Some people are optimistic, looking forward to a better world. Others are pessimistic, and fear that things can only get worse. The writer of the song you are about to listen to takes the pessimistic view. Looking further and further into the future things seem to him to get worse and worse. By 3535, he foresees all our thoughts and feelings will be shaped by drugs. Looking further still into the future he foretells that our bodies will waste away as machines do everything for us. Family life as we know it will fade away as children are bred artificially, chosen, in the words of the song, from the bottom of a long black tube. Given that man seems to pay so little attention to taking care of the planet and avoiding using up all its resources, he ends by wondering whether man will still be around in the future. Its enough, as he says, to make even God shake his head.????Here is the song: In the Year 2525???????????????????Zager Evans In the year 2525If man is still aliveIf woman can surviveThey may findIn the year 3535Aint gonna need to tell the truth, tell no liesEverything you think, do, and sayIs in the pill you took todayIn the year 4545Aint gonna need your teeth, wont need your eyesYou wont find a thing to doNobodys gonna look at youIn the year 5555Your arms are hanging limp at your sidesYour legs got nothing to doSome machine is doing that for youIn the year 656