Zager & Evans Predux (Onion Edition)

Nick Gillespie | July 1, 2005

Where Zager & Evans wondered whether man would still be alive in the year 2525, The Onion predicts that the future is going to be nothing short of a laff-riot.

The satiric site's 300th anniversary issue, dated June 22-29, 2056, is online here. Among the headlines:

Democratic Middle Eastern Union Votes To Invade U.S.

Million Robot March Attended By Exactly 1,000,000 Robots

We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics: Stop Fingering My Wife

Front page here.

Well worth killing a Friday at work with (except for Reason staffers).

Comments

|7.1.05 @ 10:29AM|#

Favorite headlines so far:

"Italy Bombed Back to the Renaissance"

"Grave Robbers Pry Valuable Rifle from Charlton Heston's Cold, Dead Hands."

|7.1.05 @ 11:53AM|#

The Onion never lets me down.

|7.1.05 @ 1:22PM|#

Much hilarity as usual, but if that's what web design looks like in 2056, I'm throwing away my computer.

|7.1.05 @ 5:00PM|#

I keep expecting the Onion to jump the shark, but they still rock on a weekly basis. (and I've been picking it up since it was a local Madison rag.)

PS - Went to the WIRED Nextfest last weekend and I too have seen the Future - In The Future, children will wear crazy hats made from balloons.

|7.1.05 @ 6:08PM|#

In the year 2525, one of the great "artificial sound" records from the '60s. How exactly did they manage to make that record sound like it was a 30 piece orchestra recorded to a Panasonic cassette deck?

Canadian Navel Gazer|7.2.05 @ 9:31PM|#

Mexico, Canada, and [b]Quebec[/b] have stated they are sympathetic to the MEU's goals but must remain neutral for the protection of their own people"

Heh, heh