I’ve been thinking, lately, a lot about the role of fiction—specifically science fiction—in shaping how I see the world. Not just for entertainment, but for the doors it quietly opens in our minds. Watching "Star Trek: Discovery", I found myself less fixated on alien diplomacy or warp drives and more intrigued by something subtler: the sheer persistence of curiosity.

Star Trek may have got a lot right—but when it comes to the future of work, they also missed the mark by about 300 years.