A contemporary of Wells, Jules Verne had a very different view of the effect of technology on society. He portrayed a future of intense pioneering exploration and discovery in his books, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
In the twentieth century, many authors, scriptwriters, and other creative professionals have portrayed views of the technological future which comment on the societal changes that will be wrought by technology. Aldous Huxley's seminal work Brave New World portrayed a culture which had lost its joy because of the application of technology by a power-hungry government. This novel anticipates the widespread use of birth-control and predicts cloning technologies. Isaac Asimov's tremendously popular science fiction novels imagine universes populated by robots with strict moral codes, and cultures that are preserved and perpetuated by colonizing the far reaches of the galaxy.
It's worth mentioning that a familiar television series, Star Trek, envisioned by Gene Roddenberry, was one of the leading social commentaries of it's day when it first premiered. In the context of a future society, Roddenberry encouraged his own vision of a worthwhile future, in which predjudice based on race, religion, or sex was largely eradicated, greed and monetary compensation was a thing of the past, and knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge, was the highest goal of mankind.