It is a subgenre of science fiction, known for its focus on "high technology and low standard of living"
Sure you have liked movies like Matrix or Yo robot, because this is Ciberpunk taken to the big screen. But in the world of literature there are hundreds of books better than others but with a deep philosophical touch, this is noticeable because we look around us, how the world has evolved now as technology advances in a way that never ceases to amaze us.
The future embraces thousands of us at this time of scientists working to create new projects, bad ones, good ones, that bring benefits sometimes, sometimes not. We are an involutive species even though we think of ourselves as thinking mammals. It is a stage to read and in different ways ...
Science fiction makes for great thought experiments. Some of my biggest epiphanies about the future of technology and/or society, came from reading heady sci-fi like Snow Crash or Diaspora.