When I started out on this research, I imagined I would be writing or filming a straight, chronological narrative, starting at point A and moving progressively through the remaining points until I reached a tidy conclusion. I admit that I was fully expecting my main question, whether or not science fiction represent dystopic fears of the future, to be an easy yes, and from there I would merely need to see if I could determine exactly why 1984 was such an important year in all three of the threads I was following. Instead, my research led me off onto tangents I could not have anticipated, several changes of plans, and the realization that science fiction does not at all reflect future dystopic possibilies.

Most essential to my reaching this conclusion was an understanding of Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis, and Luhmann's concept of resonance. Working with these two theories in a Foucauldian genealogy that allows for an artificial start and end based on a contained set of web pages that link outwards to other points gave me the ability to both weave and understand a full web of connectivity between three disparate aspects and interconnections of society. Viewing society as an autopoieic organism creates the necessary system for seeing how resonance creates a, for lack of better phrase, social noise that culminates in many people across multiple, unrelated disciplines, act on and support the same ideas.

My final conclusion is not that sccience fiction represents the potential for a dystopic futures, but that the dystopic possibilities are based in the present and on the technology of now; this is why we find science fiction books such as Neuromancer so very scary and compelling when they are published - because they represent the now and reflection of where the now could be, as opposed to the future and where we might go.