There are definitely links between the fiction of a given time and the technology which follows that time, even if simply because fiction is by definition the work of imagination and imagination is the mother of invention.

Today we have laser hair removal and hair dyes, but in the future authors have envisaged being able to alter hair colour at a whim through various means which seem farfetched now.  But when you look at the size of the global market for hair dyeing treatments and the amount the average consumer of such products spends on them in a year, you can guarantee research is being conducted by companies into trying to make some of the less unbelievable methods for achieving this into a workable, profitable product.

The many stories about armies of clone warriors or vat grown monsters have been a constant thorn in the side of those wishing to develop infertility treatments which involve any kind of outside interference in the natural process.  This is a very ethically tricky area which was inspired by science fiction and seen as a way of giving hope to couples who may otherwise never conceive.  Now its opponents use those same horror films to paint a picture of a future with science run amok to try and support their own limited views.

We dream of instant surgery to change our outer appearance while things like tattoo removal and laser assisted surgery go on around us every day.