January 20, 2026 – When you drove by the native YMCA commonly over the a long time, when you appeared carefully sufficient, a curious development was found. The power showcased the health middle and four-lane pedestrian and vehicular site visitors outdoors by way of a curved wall of floor-to-ceiling home windows.

In the course of the year-end post-holiday cool-down and thru the primary month of the yr, the health middle was busy with patrons utilizing the gymnasium tools and dashing across the indoor observe – at the least as a lot as you might by way of the foggy home windows.

Nevertheless, by mid-February, a little bit previous Valentine’s Day, the crowds disappeared. By clear home windows you might see empty train machines and an empty observe. This occurred yearly. Like clockwork.

Clients achieved their health targets (e.g. constructing or firming muscle, dropping pounds, and so on.), discovered one other method to spend their time, or just turned uninterested in boredom and detached to the anticipated outcomes.

That is just like a human’s relationship with know-how on the whole, automation specifically, pc or robotic techniques.

“Finally, our concepts about robots aren’t about robots. The robotic is a canvas onto which we undertaking our hopes, our desires and our fears… they change into embodiments of these hopes, desires and fears.” – Hank Inexperienced, writer/novelist, An Completely Exceptional Factor

Learn extra within the newest problem of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting.