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All the technologies for gamification, monitoring etc. seem to already exist in the mainstream. When do you predict the personal trainer jobs sector will die ou

by Tycho 10y ago

All the technologies for gamification, monitoring etc. seem to already exist in the mainstream. When do you predict the personal trainer jobs sector will die out?

ZenoArrow 10y ago
Die out or be reduced? If we're talking about being reduced, I'd say 20 years from now the industry will be 50% of its current levels for paid human personal trainers. I'd predict the turning point will be about 3 years after VR becomes mass market. There's still going to remain a market for the human touch, as you say, so die out doesn't seem appropriate. Also, I should clarify, I do want a world where people help each other people get fitter. What I can see happening isn't a world where we're any less social than we already are, but rather I can see a world where paid social interaction is reduced. In other words, if personal training is a vocation, something that people take pleasure from regardless of the money, it'll exist just as strongly as before. Once you take money out of the equation you can see that our human-focused society can continue to thrive, plus money is not going to matter as much when we can meet our needs without needing to earn it.
- Tycho 10y ago
  20yrs... ok. When do you think it will stop growing?
  - gremlinsinc 10y ago
    Is there a personal trainer that you can wear around your wrist, and possibly interface with a biometric chip inside your body that measures sugars/caloric intake and sends you automated feedback like: "Hey, you're overeating, is something wrong? Are you emotional eating?" -- or that charts and tracks every last ounce of calories burned, and can literally quantify the entire metabolic output of your body in a given day? What about one that can track which workouts actually keep you motivated longer, which diet foods you like better, just by watching your behavior? -- Nothing like this exists today, but it will, eventually. AI will be a lot like the AI in HER and it won't be very long of a wait, probably in 20 years or so..

by Tycho 10y ago

All the technologies for gamification, monitoring etc. seem to already exist in the mainstream. When do you predict the personal trainer jobs sector will die out?

ZenoArrow 10y ago

Die out or be reduced? If we're talking about being reduced, I'd say 20 years from now the industry will be 50% of its current levels for paid human personal trainers. I'd predict the turning point will be about 3 years after VR becomes mass market. There's still going to remain a market for the human touch, as you say, so die out doesn't seem appropriate. Also, I should clarify, I do want a world where people help each other people get fitter. What I can see happening isn't a world where we're any less social than we already are, but rather I can see a world where paid social interaction is reduced. In other words, if personal training is a vocation, something that people take pleasure from regardless of the money, it'll exist just as strongly as before. Once you take money out of the equation you can see that our human-focused society can continue to thrive, plus money is not going to matter as much when we can meet our needs without needing to earn it.

Tycho 10y ago
20yrs... ok. When do you think it will stop growing?
- gremlinsinc 10y ago
  Is there a personal trainer that you can wear around your wrist, and possibly interface with a biometric chip inside your body that measures sugars/caloric intake and sends you automated feedback like: "Hey, you're overeating, is something wrong? Are you emotional eating?" -- or that charts and tracks every last ounce of calories burned, and can literally quantify the entire metabolic output of your body in a given day? What about one that can track which workouts actually keep you motivated longer, which diet foods you like better, just by watching your behavior? -- Nothing like this exists today, but it will, eventually. AI will be a lot like the AI in HER and it won't be very long of a wait, probably in 20 years or so..