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by pjc50 3564 days ago
Other way round: real-world capabilities are built out to meet the SF expectations. Star Trek communicators -> mobile phones. Star Trek computer -> Alexa/Siri et al.

(Besides, the alternative is for the layman to infer capabilities from marketing material, which is even more outlandishly fictional)

Oh, and if you want an exhaustive list of when something appears in media, TVtropes will always deliver: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=6zj22p5kr47sfh2...