When I research the last technology, I usually immediately stop all research and start selling libraries and stuff, because it costs me without giving me anything - except for future techs, which are useless.
But we can fix that. I thought of a few things future techs could boost globally, maybe 1% per tech:
- Trade
 - Production
 - Unit veterancy chance
 - Unit movement points
 - Unit initial veteran level(might be OP)
 - City radius square(not sure if that's such a good idea)
 
There's obviously a lot more. I think each of these, and how much it is increased per future tech, could be defined in either game.ruleset or techs.ruleset, like this:
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[future_techs]
trade = 1
production = 5
unit_move = 2
This would increase total trade output by 1% per future tech, production in every city by 5% per tech and unit movemen points by 2% per future tech.
Tell me what you think!