Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Are the Simpsons predicting our future of technology?

We all know and love the Simpsons family and we often laugh at the silly things that they come up with. The Simpsons are actually predicting our future of technology with the crazy things in each episode. So what have they thought of that we use now in everyday life?


With technology becoming more advance these days, phones and computers are developing to things that they weren’t 30 years ago, now even watches. In the 1995 episode of "Lisa's wedding", her fiancĂ© makes a phone call using his watch. Now in 2014 we recently launched smartwatches, which is basically a phone and watch combined. Did Samsung and Apple get their inspiration from the Simpsons?

Yet another prediction from the episode of “Lisa’s Wedding” was video chatting. Lisa enters a regular phone number and Marge then pops up on the screen of the phone. How crazy is that? The Simpsons already knew we would video chat with people. Skype and Face time is what we use to video chat and it’s such a great way to communicate with people from overseas or even if they’re just in the next room.

Don’t everyone hate auto-correct sometimes? You are trying to message someone but auto-correct decides to change to a word that is totally different to what you typed. Well that’s what school bully Dolph felt in episode "Lisa on Ice", in 1994. He tried to take a memo on his Apple device “Beat up, Martin” but of course it auto-corrected to “Eat up, Martin”, typical devices.   


I guess the Simpsons have predicted our future of technology in some ways. Maybe our companies should get their inspiration from watching Simpson episodes; I know that would be interesting.

 Bibliography:
“Simpsons helped fixed iPhones”(online)(accessed on 19/10/14)
http://uproxx.com/tv/2013/09/one-simpsons-joke-helped-fix-iphone/

“12 times the Simpsons predicted the future”(online)(accessed on 19/10/14)
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jenlewis/21-times-the-simpsons-bizarrely-predicted-the-future

“15 times the Simpsons predicted the future”(online)(accessed on 19/10/14)
http://www.teendayz.com/gallery/6850/15-times-when-the-simpsons-predicted-the-future/72410

“Simpsons predicted technology”(online)(accessed on 19/10/14)
http://mashable.com/2014/03/08/simpsons-predicted-technology/

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