what's science fiction today might be science fact tomorrow.
ok now that's out of the way if your into morale lessons Michael Crichton's works are pretty good, Jurassic Park being the most well known, The Andromeda Strain being the first.
if shows are more your thing for the funny: solar opposites, final space, futurama
for fiction using very hard science: After Man,
The Future is Wild, Demain Les Animaux du Futur / Tomorrow’s Animals of the Future