Yes, I agree that it has much more to say. Bank's books routinely make assumptions about the nature of consciousness, and whether it would be possible to "upload" a mind into a body. Neil Asher does the same, but this is relevant now to debates upon the nature of consciousness as having an organic source.
Well's may well have been toying with the ideas of eugenics, but it was before it was a dirty word. The same thing could happen with gene therapy, (This is being discussed in another thread).
I think 1984's content, apart from the setting, would make it Sci-Fi, though it a strong comment on the politial issues that were current. The idea of Big Brother promulgated through technology is an example, as is newsspeak. They hold wide ranging implications, hence the constant references to them in modern culture.
I feel there is a sense that Sci-Fi is not credited with the same status as other literature, but should be for the above reasons and more. It has currency beyond the period it adresses, in the same way that literature in dealing with human relations and lots of other issues- historical etc.

