One might have brought about the other, given the contamination between scifi and tech progress elsewhere.
Examples include star Trek communicators and cell phones, automatic doors had inspiration from Trek iirc. Saw something the other day about how biofoam from the Halo series is now a thing.
There is a lot of back and forth between those who dream and those who want to see if they can make those dreams real.
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u/HAWKxDAWG 7h ago
Sounds kind of like psychohistory from Foundation.