What's some books with an interesting vision of the future? I don't just mean more advanced technology, I mean the way it's organized.
I find often people can't envision past the society we have now. There's that quote, "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", and it seems more and more true, but sci-fi authors seem best equipped to actually imagine beyond that.
I've heard some sci-fi authors mentioned in this category before, like Heinlen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
I haven't read any of them lol. Would have no idea where to start within them that fits this category, or what other choices there are that people would suggest.
think you want The Culture series
The Culture series was my first thought too lol. One of my favourite sections was when the Minds were debating if it's ethical to turn off a simulation that's so perfect it's indistinguishable from reality, and then one of them posits that they might be in a simulation so perfect it's indistinguishable from reality, and they eventually reach the conclusion that if they are there's nothing they can do about it anyway so they might as well get on with things.