Science fiction is a great way to get out of the drudgery of your own life for a couple of hours. It’s why we keep coming back to our favorite films, TV shows, and franchises. We love the feeling of getting away from our own worlds for a while. It’s easy to get tired of Earth, with its gravity, taxes, and expensive apartments. It’s more fun to think about life on an Earth-orbiting space station in 2049 (Yes, I’m talking about Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century). 

If I were Zenon, you think, my problems wouldn’t be that I spend too much time on Instagram Reels, it would be saving my space station from a dangerous computer virus (can you tell that movie was released in 1999?). That sounds a lot more interesting to me. But whether you dream of being Zenon or Paul Atreides or Luke Skywalker or Marty McFly, the important thing is that we dream at all.