ABSTRACT
This chapter weaves the different threads of this book together to show which future-shaping patterns around digitalisation and gender emerge. This chapter shows how seemingly isolated issues form patterns that can lead to exclusion or inclusion. The chapter shows how certain futures are made possible while others are made impossible. It is also suggested how alternative futures might be created. It is also suggested that digitalisation and gender create complex, integrate and dynamic patterns of inclusion and exclusion. The chapter argues that technology is shaped by society and vice versa. It is suggested that data is inherently social and thus inevitably biased. AI thus often leads to a reification of gender, which curtails possible futures. The chapter also discusses the politics of visibility, accountability and the situatedness of the research in its time. Overall, the chapter suggests that while technologies have a tendency to repeat existing patterns around gender, the same shaping effect might also be used to design technologies that lead to inclusive futures.
