What impact has films of the science fiction genre had on the world?

Answer 1

It has gotten people used to the idea that there will be a future, of some sort, and that it will be different. Throughout most of humanity's existence, you died in more or less the same world you were born in. It has popularized science, to some extent.

I can remember being laughed at in school for saying that we would go to the Moon some day, and that there might be aliens living somewhere in space. Now everyone but the extreme far left lunatic fringe knows we have gone to the Moon, and people are making a living pretending to alien encounters (Roswell or the Hill case for example) that obviously never actually happened. There are even people who believe that V was a documentary and the world is actually run by lizard people from outer space. On no evidence at all of course-- so far there is no actual proof of alien life anywhere in the Universe.

I guess what I am trying to say, is that the Media, in popularizing the notion of "The Future", is going a little wild, so this awareness is not exactly 100% a good thing.