I’m not sure if you’re looking for just future societies in terms of tech level or possibilities of what our future could be like…

Here’s some suggestions:

Minority Report- Morality issues for prosecuting people for crimes they will have committed in the future.

A Scanner Darkly- How far are we willing to take the war on drugs and a good look at addiction and how we perceive the world with our cognitive senses.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card- Considered a modern sci-fi masterpiece by many this book takes place in a future Earth where we are at war with an alien species intent to exterminate us so we test children at pre-pubescent ages for the ability to be commanders for the war on the “buggers.” It’s a good look at human relations in the face of extinction.

Gravity’s Angels/Tales of Old Earth/The Dog Said Bow-Wow- Collections of short stories by Michael Swanwick that deal with extremely adult themes and alternate realities with concepts and moralities that will turn you on your ear.

MAGE: The Ascension- A tabletop roleplaying game. It’s main theme is about the two main forces of magic, the Traditions and the Technocracy, fighting to impose their will as the dominant reality, magic and science, respectively. This war is is over the “sleepers,” or non-awakened beings, humans who have not realized that their is a war of opposing magical views being waged around them whilst they drive their mini-vans and enjoy their microwaves.

Primer- Four guys invent something… And in this 1 hour and 20 minute film, they attempt to discover what their invention does, and what they should do with it when they do…

Children of Men- A dystopian film where the human race has stopped giving birth for almost 2 decades, then, someone becomes pregnant. A good look at human morality/interactions when conventional society breaks down.

Equilibrium- 1984 on film with awesome gunplay. Doubleplus good!

The Prisoner- An old TV show that picks up where Secret Agent Man left off. Our main character, Number Six, is kidnapped and placed on an island where secret agents and sensitive persons are forced to live and are bumigned numbers as names. He is in a constant struggle to find out who Number One is, but the answers to the questions may snap his sanity. Plus, Rover, the security system for the island, is a giant weather ball who smothers people. Sweet!

Blindness- Recently released movie, probably the best dystopian film in a long time to come out. People are being randomly stricken with blindness and the government doesn’t know why, so they quarantine the blind and **** goes awry.

If you need any other suggestions, film or literary, send me a tubmail. I’m working towards a doctorate in English for my work as a Lit. professor. I focus on courses that discuss High Fantasy/Sci-Fi in modern times. You have touched upon a pbumion of mine. Log in to see images!