By now, we all know
The Simpsonsseems to have a knack for predicting things to come up. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to Donald Trump’s presidency and subsequent riot on Capitol Hill to what Vice President Kamala Harris would habiliment at her inauguration.

Former staff writer Bill Oakley has previously suggested that
The Simpsons
writers room has less of a magic lens into the future and more than of a knack for learning from the past saying, “I would say in full general when people say
The Simpsons has predicted something information technology is simply that we were satirising real-life events from years before and because history keeps repeating it just SEEMS like we were predicting things.”

That may be and so, only the long-running animated series has also fabricated a fair few predictions that take however to come up true, but very well could. While we aren’t necessarily in demand of another juicer like the ane that brought the Osaka flu to Springfield, or Homer’s terribly ill-conceived makeup gun, in that location are a few things that could actually make life in 2022 easier and beyond.

Virtual Reality Nutrient

In this episode, The Simpsons time travel to the future–in this case, 2030–and relish some “virtual fudge” with the utilize of VR glasses and feeding tubes.

Nosotros might exist a little ahead of schedule for this one because Purple Caribbean Cruises are already onto the virtual reality dining experience!

Mail Past Hologram

In the episode
Bart to the Time to come
— yes, the same episode that predicted Trump’due south presidency — mail is delivered past holograms. Hologram technology has advanced profoundly in recent years and has been used to bring deceased artists such as Tupac Shakur to life for concerts, and so perhaps information technology’s not that crazy to think it could become a feature of Australia Mail service.

The simply downside? Not being able to convince yourself that invites to weddings and birthday parties “got lost in the mail.”

Simpsons — 20th Century Play tricks/Disney

The Babe Translator

Honestly, why doesn’t this only be already? What parent would non want a machine that translates their babe’s coos and cries into discernible sentences?

In the episode
Brother, Can You Spare 2 Dimes?,Homer’south estranged half-brother Herb Powell returns — having lost his car company and vast fortune subsequently Homer designed a monstrous car for Powell Motors. Herb thinks it’s only fair that Homer lends him some greenbacks to get him back on his anxiety, and used the money to make the prototype of the baby translator which goes on to be a huge success — just equally it would be in existent life.

To be fair, in that location is an app called Cry Translator that, as the name suggests, interprets the cries of a baby to make up one’s mind if information technology’s hungry, tired, bored, stressed or in discomfort (and information technology did come out well after
The Simpsons
episode aired) but a motorcar that delved into a lilliputian one’s thoughts
Expect Who’s Talking
mode would surely sell like gangbusters.

A Female President

When millions of Americans voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to win the 2020 election, they did and so with the knowledge that there is a not bad likelihood that Harris volition step into the superlative job in the next four to eight years.

Of class, while we absolutely do not wish any harm on 78-year-old Biden, it is conceivable that he may plough his duties over to his deputy at some point which would make Harris the starting time Usa female president ever.

Happily, if Biden serves the total four-to-eight years, Harris will be eligible to run for the presidency which could mean that
The Simpsons’
prediction of a female in the White Firm could finally come up true.

World Peace

Perhaps the most pressing predictions that we would dear to run into come up true from
The Simpsons
— world peace is surely at the peak of anybody’s wish list, especially after a twelvemonth similar 2020.

In the
Springfield Files —the brilliant crossover episode with
The X-Files —
agents Mulder and Scully arrive in town to investigate a mysterious, glowing beingness that appears each Fri nighttime proffering love and peace to the residents of Springfield.

Of course, information technology turns out to but exist Mr Burns, goofed up to his eyeballs after his weekly life extension treatments at the Mayo Clinic and glowing from a lifetime of radiation exposure at the Ability Institute, just he however manages to unite the world in a heartwarming display of togetherness, acceptance and song.

Colonising Mars

When Lisa decides to volunteer for a one-fashion trip to Mars, Marge isn’t happy. In fact, the whole family ends up signing upward for the mission, hoping they’ll convince her non to go afterwards all.

The thought of the mission is that they’ll colonise Mars before 2026. When the takeoff fails, Lisa and Marge end upwardly arriving on Mars in 2051.

In real life, of class, we have Elon Musk, who’s got the SpaceX team working with the goal of sending cargo ships to Mars this twelvemonth.

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