ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that science fiction does not so much predict the future as project the social impact of burgeoning technologies, which are mapped onto future or alternative worlds and this, at least according to Colin Milburn’s argument, is also the business of science writing. It points out the genetic modification of food crops was, in part, an attempt to mitigate the disaster produced by the ‘green revolution’, which had caused alarm across both the developed and developing world. The book also suggests that, the life of technoscientific artefacts is, to an extent, always already determined, even before such artefacts can be said to exist. It points out the language of electronic processing and hypertext can confound the linear narratives required by technoscientific determinism.
