The "Smart Glasses" (Episode: "The Simpsons Movie", 2007)

The Simpsons has earned quite the reputation for seemingly predicting the future. It’s actually a bit of a meme at this point, with fans pointing out how many things in the real world appear to have been "predicted" by the show, sometimes years in advance. While some of these predictions are purely coincidental or the result of broad satire, others do seem oddly prescient.

The "Smart Glasses" (Episode: "The Simpsons Movie", 2007)

• What happened: In this movie, characters wear high-tech glasses that allow them to interact with the digital world around them.
• Reality: Google Glass, a pair of augmented reality glasses, was released in 2013. While it was ahead of its time and didn’t take off in the mainstream, it foreshadowed the future of wearable AR glasses.