Top 20 Times TV Shows Predicted the Future
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- Life imitates art more than you think! For this list, we’ll be looking at times when fictional programs appeared to imitate a real-world event before it occurred. Our countdown of TV shows that predicted the future includes shows like “Supernatural”, “Parks and Recreation”, “The Simpsons”, “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, “30 Rock”, and more! Which of these predictions shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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the cubs win the world series
I find it kind of sick to use Steven Hyde from that ‘70s show as thumbnail. Also using this tiered topic because the actor was convicted recently.
Why was there footage of Greek protestors with Anti Merkel signs in this footage on Ashley Madison?
I think it’s more, the “powers that be” watch sometimes obscure TV shows, then make the “predictions” happen to fook with us!!!
your writers are really sleeping on the job. in the 2015 revival of the xfiles you dind out that scully is being shown visions of the very near future where the government released a foreign virus into the population that begins a global pandemic with lockdowns, quarantines, panic in the streets as neighbors turn against each other out of fear, police are murdering innocent people in broad daylight and then out of nowhere, like a miracle, the government comes out with a vaccine that does more bad than good.
Sound familiar??
I'm surprised that The Jetsons wasn't on this list. The Jetsons also predicted a LOT of stuff as well like zoom meetings, seeings doctors through computers, etc
And no black people
honestly, that could be its own list, detailing some of the stuff you mentioned, and id love to see a jetsons prediction list
But the Jetsons took place in the 22nd century.
@@WHOOP1976 canonically George Jetson is 40 he was born July 2022, and the show takes place in 2062
@@WHOOP1976the Jetsons last episode was aired November 12, 1987. If it took place in the 23rd century, who's the time traveler?
Back to the Future 2 came out in 1989 and predicted the Cubs winning the world series in 2015. They were only off by 1 year.
Also predicted baseball in Florida...Marlins and Cubs can't play in the World Series but the 2003 NLCS between the Marlins and Cubs will forever be a classic in the annals of baseball history.
If they were off by a year then they didn’t predict anything. A prediction has to be specific.
They also predicted president Biff Tannen....
I was just about to say the same thing
So essentially they didn't predict shit
The technology stuff can be easily explained because a lot of engineers are hugely inspired by scifi
Was about to say. Most of these are inspirations more than predictions.
Exactly, I agree. Just merely prototypes and materials that get finalized in phases, etc; until the product is out
That can happen and has, but it’s hardly the main explanation here. Writers use their imagination to anticipate the future advancements. Scientists, engineers, and inventors use the same kind of imagination to create advancements. It’s mostly a parallel, not a linear, cause-and-effect influence.
Or vice versa! ITS TIME TRAVEL!
@@StamfordBridge that's very true! It's a self fulfilling prophecy of sorts
Hollywood already knew about Weinstien. That's no prediction. Comedians were making fun of him all the time about the same thing. It's more of an inside joke because everyone knew.
I was scrolling looking for someone to say this
Came here to say the same. Weinstein’s transgressions were a widespread open secret in the industry. Wouldn’t be surprised if knowledge about Spacey was too.
Always makes me think what else do they know that we don't, but let continue
Okaaay. Enough internet for you!
@Cameron Cone that's why 'me too' became popular. A distracting method
The Laugh In Berlin Wall prediction is pretty amazing
I LOVE that the Laugh-In writers called the event AND the year. Awesome Nostradamus stuff!
Star Trek doesn't predict technology, they INSPIRE technology, two different things
If we can assume all points in time and space are connected, maybe they did both?
Arthur C Clarke (author of 2001 a space odyssey and Rendezvous with Ram) laid out the basic principles of personal mobile communications devices using satellite relays in 1945. In 1984, the Organiser was the first PDA produced in the UK by psion at least two years before TNG aired. At the time it replaced the filofax and upgrades came along with technological advances so that they evolved into tablets but Star Trek didn't actually inspire them, rather it boosted belief in new tech actually having everyday relevance. Not dissing Trek. I have loved it since I was six years old, when Kirk and Spock were still young and on their first mission together.
@@obi-ron In 2061:Odyssey Three, which he wrote in 1987, Clarke wrote about looking up a poem on his office computer:
With no further clues, it might take the station Computer quite a while -- perhaps as much as ten minutes -- to locate the line in the whole body of English literature.
When I performed the same search on Google in 2012, it took me 1/8 of a second to find 65 results.
Star Trek inspired generations of future scientists to create what they saw rather than the show predicting the tech. It includes other tech too. Things like the MRI.
Hyde being arrested for possession and Danny Masterson being convicted for rape is hardly the same thing.
they should have showed danny mastersons scene in the movie Face/ Off
Ty. I thought this was a dumb entry
I thought the same thing. 😂😂
Isn’t it odd that the video says he was convicted of assault instead of calling it what it was, two counts of forcible rape and a third count hung 8/4 for guilt. Much different than possession and run of the mill assault.
@@Dpv6942 yea. If you have fame and money I guess they don’t acknowledge that.
Frank Spotnitz, one of the writers of _The Lone Gunmen_ pilot, said that when they wrote it, he believed if such a scenario had ever occurred to them, he assumed the Defense Department obviously had also thought about such a scenario and would put preventive systems in place.
They allowed it to happen.
That day I felt, and still when I think about it, it was a bad action plot come to life. I don't blame the show writers though.
But you have to wonder... Did they predict it? Or did they give them the idea in the first place?
@@toxicginger9936 They had nothing to do with it.
The Berlin Wall prediction was spot on.
Star Trek: The Next Generation didn't "predict" iPads as much as they directly inspired them as well as inspiring music compression, music streaming, electronic prosthetic eyes, cochlear implants and a number of other inventions and breakthroughs in technology and design.
I'd say it's the other way around. A lot of these technologies take years to realize (20+ years), so the ideas for these technologies had been percolating in the scientific communities (tech companies, research groups, universities) for years even before Star Trek started their productions. I'm sure the writers scoured the scientific/tech journals/piblications for some odd, obscure ideas to use for the stories. I mean, where did they get ideas for: warp engine, anti-matters, transporter, etc.?
@@fjodorcornelisson6874 But Star Trek: The Next Generation came out 40 years ago, far longer than the estimated 20 years that you stated. Also, the inventors of several of those items that I mentioned have specifically stated in interviews that they were directly inspired by not just the show as a whole but moreover by specific episodes. The fellow who inverted music compression said that it was the episode in which Data was listening to several classical-music pieces simultaneously, in real time, at command, without buffering or delays that gave him the inspiration he needed to develop the software which led directly to MP-3 players, bittorrent and iPods.
Don't forget that tricorders now exist.
@@johntracy72 Hundreds of years before Star Trek supposedly takes place though.
The OJ book wasn't a prediction chris rock got right. The author admitted he wrote that because he got the idea from the Chris Rock bit.
Okay but Chris Rock still predicted it right?😂
@@jonah.donohue you’re not wrong. Its a self fulfilling prophecy but its still correctly predicted.
The thing about the Simpsons writers isn't that they're Nostradamus', but they have produced SO much content - they're bound to get some hits.
a broken clock is right twice a day lol
Exactly. It's like the National Enquirer. If you print enough garbage you'll hit once in a while. Notice they don't comment on all the misses.
@@grf15the Enquirer and Star had articles about a friend of mine who is a dancer with two artificial legs. There was a story in the enquirer about a kid in my area who survived a night trapped in his car in a ditch after an accident. One of my floor mates in university knew the kid, they went to high school together.
It's not just that, rather Simpsons content also aim to be utterly absurd. The fact that they got things right indicating the US has become utterly absurd.
@@biocapsule7311 bingo as a Canadian the show is like my go to for nostalgic american family nonsense
Quantum Leap also predicted smart phones with Ziggy. Al actually treated Ziggy like a smart phone. Though Al had come from the year 1998 a few years before smart phones came out.
For me one stand out example is when Dale Gribble accurately predicted our electronic devices spying on us and tagging us for targeted adverts in King Of the Hill long before that was actually proven. Believe it was episode 17 of season 2, 'Hanks dirty laundry' according to the episode list at least.
Computers don't make mistakes! What they do, they do on purpose.
Minority Report also had targeted advertisements. Although I believe we already had those online too based on products we had already purchased.
by that logic, they should've used that episode of That 70's when Hyde and the guys got fried and then really paranoid that the Feds were listening to them through a vacuum cleaner (because Kelso called the White House and said that the president is in danger LOL) as an example too.
Star Trek: TNG was not first to predict tablets ... That distinction goes to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. They can be spotted in a few scenes aboard the U.S.S. Discovery, because they are laying flat, they often mistaken by viewers as display panels fixed to a console, but closer inspection they are portable screens.
Futurama predicted the Apple Vision Pro in the episode Attack of the Killer App.
Shut up and take my money!!
The 30 Rock one isn't predictive. Harvey W had been doing that to Hollywood actresses for years by the time that episode aired, so this was clearly an effort to draw attention to it. Just like Seth McFarlane's 2013 comment when he was announcing the Best Supporting Actress nominees and said, "Congratulations, you five ladies no longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein."
Exactly. 30 Rock did the same thing with Bill Cosby, I was surprised they didn't bring that up
The janitor was the smartest guy on scrubs, by far!
6:50 the Friends predicting Facebook is a bit of a cheat. At that moment in the series we had Classmates, AOL, and MySpace. This is more of a generic site mocking those that existed at the time.
Star Trek doesn't so much predict the future as it just displays technology that people think is so cool they figure out a way to create it. There is a TV show called "How William Shatner changed the world" that goes into this.
And the Google glass thing. That gadget has been on numerous of comic books over the yrs but the first one to have anything like that was penny from the cartoon Inspector Gadget. But Penny also had the first laptop, FaceTime, smart watch, and numerous of other things and that was the early 80's
And these gadgets weren't predicted they were used as ideas and then made into reality. That's all
@@brianargo1659 The Apache one eye HUD came out in the 1980s. The information presented to the user has since expanded with technological advancements.
Number 16, HOW could you not mention that Back To The Future II predicted the exact same thing, except they were ONE YEAR too early???? FAR more impressive seeing as that was 30 years early!
Number 10, I think they even called them Pads. :)
yeah, but BTTF2 had them beating Miami.
It’s even crazier, I have heard the expression “There’s no such thing as fiction.” The older I get the more I believe it.
Always great to start with supernatural 💜💜💜
Friends was just talking about Friends Reunited where your network was based on your school/college. it wasn’t predicting anything at all as it was already available.
The Lone Gunmen was a really good show - shame there were never more episodes
I never seen it since it wasnt aired in my country but knowing how good the x-files was at that time I believe you.
The whole Danny Masterson thing is just sick.
Forget That 70s Show.. how bout Danny Masterson in the movie FaceOff.. he tries to rape John Travoltas daughter! Thats a bit more spot on
Travelers also basically predicted COVID a few years before it happened. Except 1) they never named the virus, and 2) the virus was man made by a group of terrorists. I actually watched those episodes 2 years after COVID, and was shocked to learn that it was filmed years before COVID.
When COVID started, it immediately made me think of Stephen King's the Stand. Except the only similarity was that they were both pandemics. The Stand was a lot more devastating and apocalyptic.
Wim de Bie, a well-known comedian in The Netherlands, passed away on March 27th, 2023. During a sketch, 50 years ago, he "predicted" he would die in 2023.
2 predictions not on this video from Seinfeld. One where Elaine dated the mover and questioned him about his stance on abortion and he said someday the Supreme Court is going to overturn that. The second not so much a prediction but a little irony. Elaine was dating a guy with the same name as serial killer Joel Rifkin and she tries to get him to change his name. She goes through a football book and suggests he change his name to OJ.
"She goes through a football book and suggests he change his name to OJ."
I could easily see that being how Larry and Jerry could have written the script to end the episode with a twist. Elaine would get her boyfriend to change his name and a week later he buys a newspaper, opens it and he and Elaine see the headline: a different guy with the same name he changed to is identified as a serial killer. Cut to Elaine's shocked face and start the Seinfeld closing baseline.
The History Channel did at least one documentary called Star Trek Tech in the early 2000s about all the real world technology inspired by all of the shows and movies
Very interesting list. While some are probably no more than coincidences. The science and technology ones sound more like inspiration rather than predictions. I also suspect that some of the cases you mentioned involved the makers of the show knowing the people they were talking about. In others it's just spooky that it actually happened.
the Kevin Spacey one...someone must have known. Too much of a coincidence
5:08
Someone else has already said this but back to the Future predicted the same thing much sooner.
"Wish I could have put a little money on the cubbies!"
Covid and the Spanish Flu at the beginning of the 20th century ran similar courses so I don't think that this is quite a Prediction, if so then the Omega Man/Last Man on Earth beat Supernatural to the punch.But some aspects are eerie as the TP issue.
I think the TP issue is obvious. Everyone thinks- what's the one thing you don't want to be without in a shortage. Last man on Earth had an episode where they show how the pandemic started. It included obsession with washing hands, masks and pandemic deniers laughing that it couldn't be serious. This is all before 2020.
I feel like Star Trek inspired tech moreso they predicted the future. I think someone saw it on Star Trek & went "what if that was real?"
The Simpsons and Family Guy are really great at predicting things
I'm convinced Matt Groening is a time traveler
@@Gigan10610 I admit that I'm convinced of the same thing...
Reminds me of how some years ago I read somewhere of the belief that what is written down will actually happen. It hadn't been said with particular reference to any religion but for stories and writing in general. - Of course the one that always fascinated me was the Morgan Robertson novel Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, published in 1898 which seems to 'predict' the 1912 Titanic disaster.
That genuinely is fascinating 😳
you know, you might be on to something... but those were often written off as coincidences of some sort...
the more predictions you make the more likely you're going to be right about something
Rowan and Martin also predicted that then Cal.Governor Ronald Reagan would be President.
They were off by a couple of years.
The Star Trek moon landing prediction doesn't count because the moon landing program was already in progress for years with a target deadline of 1969.
Damn, some of these are absolutely prophetic.
The Cubs winning the World Series was also predicted in Richard Marx's video for "Take This Heart."
17:49 I had to pause that show and look up when it aired as it was seemed so like for like. It's even more crazy it aired January 2001
In Married With Children, in the 1997, Season 11, Episode 18 episode, "A Babe In Toyland", Kelly Bundy asks for purple M&Ms. While the original M&Ms had a violet color, in 1941, it was replaced with tan in 1949. There was a vote to replace tan with purple in 1995, but blue won. There was another vote in 2002, and purple became an M&M color for the first time since 1949, if only for a short-lived limited run, although special orders can be made for only purple M&Ms, even though they are no longer in the standard candy bags. So, Kelly Bundy predicted it five years before it came out.
The Lone Gunmen episode about the WTC really made the hairs on my arms stand up! I must have missed that first episode.
To me it's an annoyance, and it sometimes depresses me that so many people truly believe this short-lived X-Files spinoff predicted 9/11.
BTW, OBL started planning it right after they attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
8:42 I love the dragon ball z scouter they're wearing lol I have one just like it
I think the first nod to the future in ST-TNG is when Ryker goes to his room and tells the computer to play Beethoven.
Damn it not another reason to almost start supernatural but never get around to it!
Supernatural is an AMAZING SHOW!!! Good looking guys, comedy, an all the myths an legends from all over!! BEST SHOW EVER!!!💯💯🙏🏼
I know. I always say I want to watch it. People are crazy about it. I did watch most of season one but couldn’t get into it. I keep saying I’ll pick it up again yet never do.
Couldn't some of these shows have actually given people the idea to do these things in the future?!
I'm wondering if Trump was inspired by a cartoon.
@@petraw9792possibly the episode of the Simpsons when homer is pulled into a black hole and deposited in a 3D universe for instance?
This is incredible!
8:15 I have problems with these kinds of "predictions" since Sci-Fi shows often serve as idea fodder for scientists and engineers. This is essentially a self fulfilling prophecy.
same with the ipads thing. A lot of these tech predictions are more "inevitable self-fulfilling prophecies" than a true coincidental prediction
Star Trek was so good at it that if it was an R&D company it would be the first trillion dollar company.
In some of these examples, like The Lone Gunmen one, quite often movies and television don't predict the future, but they give the people the idea. Not an easy thing to prove, of course, but I think it would fall into the category of copy cat crime. Someone hears about a crime and thinks, that's cool, I'm going to do it too. Star Trek has been credited with inspiring many inventions and innovations. I remember back around 1982 listening to an interview on CBC with a telecommunications engineer, who was discussing how his company was developing a new type of phone system (the cellular system). He specifically stated they were trying to build something that would work like the Star Trek communicator.
This is *exactly* what I was thinking about that particular one. Did they predict the future? Or inspire the future?
We already know from some tech inventors/developers that Star Trek inspired them to create things we have today.
@@toxicginger9936 likewise, Robert A. Heinlein's short story Waldoes Inc. inspired people to develop the remote controlled manipulators for handing dangerous materials.
The Lone Gunmen was an underrated show
It had a really weak start but TLG was finally hitting its stride when Fox canceled it. Hard to blame Fox - the show bombed hard - but there were clear signs it had found its feet in the last two episodes.
There needs to be a list just on things invented, and were successful, solely due to the inspiration of the Star Trek franchise.
It's fitting that a spin-off of the X-Files predicted 9/11. A show about conspiracies possibly becoming part of an actual conspiracy.
Some of these I have heard before and they still seem just crazy how close or right they were. That said this list had to many things like the iPad or glasses are and have been in basically every show set in the future. The more I think about it only maybe one or 2 of these were impressive.
They wore special glasses in the Wizard of Oz in 1939 to see 3 D image of Wizard's floating head and fire.
I remember realizing the Super Bowl 30 prediction as soon as the game was airing, since I used to watch Quantum Leap reruns on USA almost every weeknight at the time and I thought holy crap this show actually predicted this it's the third quarter and the Steelers actually ARE down by 3 lol. One of the Quantum Leap novels was even able to figure out the exact date of Sam's first leap because of a comment Al made about staying up late to watch some overtime basketball game. The author mentioned some NBA playoff game a few years later that went into overtime, so he said that was probably the date of Sam's first leap.
Yes! I also had watched the Quantum Leap reruns on USA a lot around that time, so when Super Bowl XXX happened and that point came late in the game where the Steelers were down by three points, I was thinking to myself, "Holy Crap! Al is talking to Sam about this right now!"
Really blew my mind, especially when one considers that the Steelers had only played in one Super Bowl between XIV and XL, and this was it!
Sorry but the 1989 wall is mind blowing its too accurate
Remember Quantam Leap (the original)? Al was always hitting his handheld gadget (smartphone) to get it to display right... just like i am contantly hitting my phone so the screen will rotate 😂
With the star trek stuff its mostly self fulfilling prophecy. Someone saw the tech, thought it looked cool and decided to make it.
The only self fulfilling prophesies from Star Trek came about when Miguel Alcubierre presented his thesis on warp drive in 1994. NASA is still working on that in a project run by Sonny White. And humans have managed to teleport a few molecules across a room. We don't have spaceships made of Tritanium and computers don't use trinary code.. Trek was a concept model for integration, cooperation and tolerance forged by the need to overcome the threat of rigid authoritarianism (Klingons, Triskellians and Romulans) in TOS and added Ultra Capitalism in TNG (Ferengi). The toys were just secondary and used for dramatic effect. Ion drives were already theorised and being experimented with, just not very efficiently.
@@obi-ron Star Trek predicted: flip phones, the space shuttle, space probes, transparent aluminum, Blue Tooth ear attached speakers, radar sensor doors mostly used at supermarkets, Siri/ChatGPT, virtual reality entertainment, teleportation, nuclear armed torpedoes, invisibility cloaks, a virus that mainly went after old people, the USB stick, 3-D printed food and the I-Pod,.
The Cubs couldn’t have given me a better birthday present on November 2, 2016.
Good to know that both Parks and Recreation and Back to the Future 2 knew it was coming…
My sister's birthday is also November 2. Early happy birthday!
The Google glass in Star Trek I believe you guys could be wrong. Same thing appears in The Last Starfighter.
Come to think of it, those who remember the time before their births recall souls agreeing to playing certain roles in our lives to help our souls grow. If that’s planned out, it makes sense that so many details of all of our lives are planned out to see how we will deal with situations and how we grow from them. Being in a simulated reality doesn’t have to be viewed as horrifying but a divine plan. Eventually, we will awaken more, either after we pass or perhaps miraculously before and experience a completely different reality.🤷🏻♀️
I haven’t watched it yet but I’m hoping you guys didn’t miss Degrassi predicting Drake! A club promoter told Jimmy he was the future of hip hop an Jimmy sounds exactly like Drake before he dropped.
Good comment!! I do not know how I forgot about Drake (my baby daddy)...giggle
About that Cubs winning the World Series...
I'm originally from Cleveland. I was the only person on the north side of Chicago crying and had to keep that a secret.
Just before that, I was on the south side and the Cavs won the NBA Finals. I was the only one cheering. Had to keep that a secret too! 😂😂😂
I'm surprised that Thunderbirds isn't on the list for predicting the smart watch, the Grenfell Tower fire (in two different episodes), The collapse of NY famous skycaper (9/11), the fire at gulf of mexico, Chernobyl and the creation of BT.
I wonder how many times WatchMojo is going to make this type of video.
I predict several more times. Let's come back to this comment and see if the prophecy comes true.
@@thedeejaeebee5babee don't forget to make a prediction video so when it happens you can claim the title of time Traveller 😂
The pads from the movie 2001 from the 60’s pre-dates that Star Trek SNG episode you mentioned…
In All of the Family "The Baby Contest" which aired on December 11, 1976, Archie yells to Mike, "You're Gonna Get Reagan in 1980 wise guy!"
What about Seinfeld predicting OJ as a murderer? There was a Seinfeld episode where Elaine's boyfriend shared the same name as a serial killer and she suggests he should change his name to OJ. The episode aired 6 months before OJ was charged with murder
I'm surprised you didn't add how Max Headroom predicted the impact television would have upon society.
Back in the 90s, I had a Sega Lock-On. The technology was obviously far more primitive than a Google Glass, but the idea of a headset that displayed data directly to the eye was not new.
I love Star Trek's ability to predict future technology, but I dont think this was them imagining a device that might exist, rather it was taking existing tech and imagining an evolution.
Whoa… that’s surprising!
Don't forget the TV show 7 days (1998-2001) predicted COVID-19 with the second episode of Season 1 called The Gettysburg Virus 🦠😷
Three's Company predicted Huge Misunderstandings!
😀😀😀
predicting that Gadaffi would die was bound to come true at some point.
In a 1975 Doctor Who story 'Terror of the Zygons', the Brigadier receives a phone call from a Prime Minister he calls 'Madam'
Didn’t 2001: A Space Odyssey have a device that looked kind of like an iPad?
People who watched shows like Star trek and similar shows were likely inspired by these shows to pursue these tech developments, and the names were no coincidence.
Moreover, a lot of these "predictions" were based on real-time predictions by scientists about what could be possible based on the current technological advancements.
Was just about to post this.
Yeah but not trump tho
@@vaporwave1450 true that ones weird
Starting with the Original Series, Star Trek inspired a LOT of people who were interested in science caught the design bug and many of the things that the franchise has "developed" were either predicted, or they were in the show and engineers and inventors saw the items and said "We can do that." So sometimes it's hard to tell which came first, the space chicken or the space egg. :)
Somebody needs to go ahead and invent some eye drops to fix nearsightedness, and all these other whiz bang tech products.
I love how the O.J. book "If I Did It" is almost always published with a cover where the "If" is tucked in the letter "I" so on first glance it always looks like the title is "I Did It." Probably just to sell copies to rubes thinking it's a confession.
I just noticed that.
Quantum Leap is my favorite show!
A lot of educated guesses and inspired inventions.
Handheld computers were not a stuff of Sci-Fi in 1992. There were already several attempts tu introduce such mobile, touch operated computer to the market. They were functional, but weren't able to gain much popularity. "Star Trek" wasn't "predicting iPads". I guess screenwriters did their research and knew that such devices already exist and simply assumed should be widespread in the future.
The Dick Tracy comics predicted the smart watch back in the 1940's.
The fall of the Berlin Wall wasn't the only "prediction" made by _Laugh In._ Another episode with a news of the future sketch (in this case, the future was 1988) referred to then California Governor Reagan as "President Reagan".
Another 'Laugh In' 'News of the Future' item (from 1968) said that Ronald Reagan was president in 1988. Also, 'Back to the Future 2' predicted that the Cubs would win the World Series in 2015. Only 1 year off, 30 years in advance!
If I had to guess, I'd say that at least one writer from The Lone Gunmen was a fan of Tom Clancy. Near the end of his 1994 novel, Debt of Honor (spoiler alert), an angry airline pilot diverts his plane to strike the Capitol building during a presidential address to a joint session of Congress, killing nearly every member of the government (except) newly appointed VP, Jack Ryan. It's, unfortunately, likely that book might have inspired the 9/11 attacks.
Supernatural Made sense because i saw and finished that series in 2020 during the Covid Pandemic and they ended the Series On Nov 2020
Thanks Eric Kripke
14:12 Don't think it should be considered a prediction if it is something a lot of people in Hollywood were aware of but afraid to talk about.
I accidentally predicted the final episode of Newhart. The day it was going to air, I was talking to a co-worker about it and said it would be so cool if they ended it with Bob waking up with Suzanne Pleshette in Chicago. But I thought, they'll never do it. But what gave me the idea was how, a couple of years before, on the show, Dallas, they brought a major character back to life that they had killed off the previous season by having his wife wake up, finding him in the shower, and realizing the entire previous season was only a dream.
I was never a fan of Dallas and never watched it, so I don't know the characters' names (it was Patrick Duffy who played the character; maybe Bobby Ewing?). But that scene made big news on Entertainment Tonight, which I did watch, so I remembered it when Newhart ended. It may be that inspired the writers on Newhart as well.
The moon landing wasn't spontaneous. The Apollo program started in 1961. The Star Trek-writers know a moonlanding would happen and guessed it would be in 1969.
Pretty sure the iPad and iOS was entirely inspired by TNG. If memory serves I heard a story about Jobs walking in and saying, after showing a clip of TNG, “I want us to build this.”
Not to mention Voyager predicting wireless downloads too.
There’s an episode of Star Trek TNG where they find some frozen people from our time & wake them up. They ask the computer to look up the family tree of their descendants and can track everyone’s family for hundreds of years. Whenever I work on Ancestry, I think we’re building the beginnings of that system.
09:00 I just realized that's my old high school. Verdugo Hills High.
I was watching superdimentionap fortress Macross (aka Robotech) from the 70's and cars had screens on the dash like we have today.
Rowan & Martin's "News of the Future" also mentioned President Ronald Reagan once.
It's not really surprising that Spooks predicted 7/7. Given the climate of the time, it was pretty certain that London would be hit with a terrorist attack pretty much any time. I remember that day because my girlfriend at the time was working in London and her stop was Edgeware Road. Thankfully she was unhurt, but I had to call her about 20 times to get through to make sure she was OK as the phone networks were rammed :S
United States of Tara predicted the Japan tsunami. The episode aired only a few days after it actually happened.
Many of the Star Trek predictions were actually inspirations, not predictions. Even the inventors of some of the tech will admit they invented their tech because they saw it on Star Trek
I remember watching Get Smart reruns when I was a kid and thinking shoe phones could never be a thing, now we have phones on watches. :)
Check out old Dick Tracy cartoons.