Sincetimeiskind of likespace (thefourdimensionsgo hand in hand), a workingtimemachine would zoom offlikea rocket rather than disappearingina puff of smoke.
Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.