For example [vaguely]: writer creates a character who behaves like X, despite nobody actually behaving like X in real life. Then characters behaving like X become a wide-ranging trope. People in the real world begin to think it’s normal to behave like X, and subsequently start actually behaving like X themselves.
Any actual examples of this phenomenon happening?
I mean really you could just say Star Trek.
Tablets, wifi/Bluetooth, flip phones, sliding doors, on demand media (QuickTime), speaking to a device and it responds (like OG Google Assistant or Siri), transparent aluminum (Aluminum Oxynitride).
Steve Wozniak was inspired by Star Trek.
Honestly I don’t think any other show has reshaped Earth more than Star Trek.
Tricorders seemed more specific and closer than many of the other stuff featured in the ST universe. Sci-fi definitely gives scientists, inventors, and others plenty of inspiration though!