Top ten (10) predictions from the Simpson's cartoon
3rd of March 2022
10. VR
The Simpsons didn't predict VR at all, that was a concept that's been around for a long time it's just now getting good. I mean recently I got an oculus and I’m not gonna lie to You, I felt sick when tried to use it. You have to throw items at bad guys and I actually get anxious. My heart races, this is a very powerful technology.
The Simpsons predicted that VR could possibly go wrong back in 2016. The episode titled friends and family has the town excited over this new tech that's finally arrived and they're so into it that eventually people are walking in the streets wearing these goggles. They're getting hit by cars, they're losing touch with reality.
9. Mars life
The Simpsons showed a family’s visit to the big red planet come 2051, but honestly I think we'll get there a lot sooner. SpaceX is already planning to send people out there it's crazy it's happening so fast. It's just a quick nine-month trip there so make sure your phone is charged and also you gotta watch out for the galactic cosmic rays. It's actually more beneficial for the team to travel during the peak times around 2030 and 2050 because trips to the planet will be shorter for one which is great and they'll also coincide with periods of solar maximum. So while this one may not come true in 2022, it’s definitely around the corner.
8. Robots
We're at a point now where robots can straight up do parkour, Boston dynamics is trending every other week. Half the time I can't even tell if their videos are real or if they're CGI. I mean, I watch a lot of YouTube videos and I see a lot of them. The robots are too impressive.
The Simpsons have touched on robots taken over, that was an idea that's been done a few times. In 2012, they predicted that a great amount of jobs would be lost to the robots. But back in 1994 the Simpsons episode titled itchy an scratchy land showed a theme park full of robots that go crazy and attack civilians.
Also we have Sophia the robot. Now she's actually been on talk shows, it's like a real person, she has a citizenship, she's the first robot to receive citizenship from a country- Saudi Arabia.
She was also on the CNBC saying that she wanted to destroy humans at one point so that's neat. This could slowly be underway, mean I hope not.
7. Dome sweet dome
For this one we're looking at the Simpsons movie, if you haven't seen it check it out.
With the pandemic seeming to never end can we possibly see our own towns domed up? This idea came long before the Simpsons movie.
Back in the 70s, there were talks about putting a dome over Manhattan, a three-kilometre dome over midtown that regulates weather and pollution. It sounds fun but imagine if that actually had been built, imagine what we have been doing with it now. During the initial Covid outbreak would have been madness, people would have been storming it like a castle.
In 2010 there was a city planned that was supposed to be built in 2020, it was called ECO city, it was supposed to be built in the Mir mine in Siberia, it was announced in 2014 officially. This climate-controlled dome city- four and a half square kilometres but since 2016 the project lost the dome.
6. The world cup
n episode from 1997 called the cartridge family shows Mexico and Portugal going head-to-head in football. Springfield residents are told to go see this match to determine which nation is the greatest on earth between Mexico and Portugal.
In 2018. when the world cup rolled around fans were excited that this was actually coming true but at the same time, they had a laugh determining that Ronaldo must have missed that penalty intentionally that the prediction would come true. Although I think that was just a mistake but recently it's been announced that Qatar will host the tournament in November/ December 2022 rather than usual June/ July dates. Another world cup, another chance for the Simpsons to add another prediction to their impressive list.
5. Flying cars
We've been talking about flying cars for so long, I wouldn't even call this a Simpson’s prediction anymore but they've nailed it before so who knows. This year could be the year we say goodbye to tires forever.
In 2005, Professor Fink created this machine to let Bart and Lisa see the future. The future at that point was 2013 which is long since passed but Mag had left Homer because he spent all their savings on an underwater house but also in this episode, we see hover cars come.
Surprisingly, there are already flying cars in production and one such company already received flying license.
4. Music control
You ever listen to an album and it's so good that it moves you? Sometimes it'll literally move you. You have to go and bop around in the kitchen for a bit. #
In 2001 an episode called “new kids on the bleak” showed Bart in a band that was secretly a mind control device for the navy. Subliminal messaging through music.
One of their most popular tracks was called drop the bomb so obviously it was a bit more obvious where they're going, but this isn't a new idea either. Many people have thought that hip-hop brainwashes people, even the game” like the artist”. The game believes that the internet is brainwashing people into enjoying whack music.
3. VR food
The Simpson’s had their 600th episode centered around VR. As I mentioned earlier, it's a pretty big deal, It's a technology that's changing lives, and those midnight snacks might get a whole lot better in the future.
The Simpsons predicted that this virtual reality food might just be a thing. Scientists at Cornell university found out that cheese tastes better when you eat it in a certain pleasant VR setting. So if you see me eating shredded cheese at 2am naked with goggles on in my room leave me alone
2. Digital Big ben
In an episode from 1995, the future shows Lisa traveling to England to meet her future husband's parents and the big ben is digital at this point. Now today construction is still being done on the big Ben and we won't hear its chimes until next summer, but can you imagine when they finally reveal it? Instead of a chime you hear a beep, imagine every hour you get a notification instead of hearing those lovely bells?
1. Hologram mail
Coming from season 11, episode 17 - Bart to the future, we get another tease at some future tech. A mailman gives Bart a letter, but it packs quite the punch. Bart opens it up and the letter is in 4d. It's like a hologram person, it's almost like Star Wars. Honestly since I saw Star Wars when I was a little, I thought I always wanted that technology in my life.
This list is solely based on my opinion and is subjective. If you're in opposition to anything mentioned in the list above, state your opinion in the comments.
Any memory of The Simpsons I have is from childhood. I have not watched the show since then. Perhaps I should now, but would I have the time?