IMO, this article merely demonstrates that television and movies shape people's views, even when such views respresent unrealistic expectations.

This brings up the question of whether popular entertainment may be used deliberately to mold public opinion.  

About a year ago, I was surprised to read an article in the NY Times about a new govt program that was looking to hire scientists in order to train them to write scripts for movies.  The govt spokesperson said the stated goal was to promote science in movies to stimulate more kids to go into careers in science.  That seemed like a ridiculous statement given the govt's ongoing efforts to undercut wages in science-based fields using H1B visas and also high-level govt officials' support of technology outsourcing.

The study cited by the article in odograph's link was perfomed by Pew, a neoliberal think tank that promotes globalization.  You have to wonder if "the examiner is leading the witness" so-to-speak when they come up with things like:

"52 percent of respondents agree that the "free flow of information will completely blur current national boundaries as they are replaced by city-states, corporation-based cultural groupings and/or other geographically diverse and reconfigured human organizations tied together by global networks." "

Just the fact that Stephen Hawkings believes AI is likely to overrun humans and we need to start a eugenics program ASAP to save mankind tells us that the lines between entertainment and reality have blurred too much.