Is the Fiction Inspiring the Fiction?

In 19 64, when the film was released, lazes were virtually unknown technology outside of specialist research labs. I think one of those sort of classic gadgets e has to be the lazer that gold finger almost slices a bond in half with. So in many respects, the films are ahead of their time. And perhaps maybe scientist technologists are looking at these films and going, 'That's not too far from the truth'