[jfoutz]

I guess i'd hold up the culture series, and the diamond age as my vision of futurism. Those are both decades old though.

Any suggestions for something written after, say, 2005?

[r00fus]

Does it need to be written after 2005? Fire Upon Deep/Hyperion-Endymion/The Matrix (all 90's works) all posited Humans vs. AIs as a central theme, and I'd say that's another interesting take - has all sorts of frankenstein's monster implications, creator/creation contrasts.

In case you're wondering about more recent Sci-Fi, I googled it, and here's a good listing of interesting concepts:

http://io9.com/5929436/10-recent-science-fiction-books-that-...