Why can't technology make us more active?

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As far as I see now, it's been a long trend that technology is leading us to sedentary lifestyles. Does it always have to be this way with technology, or is technological innovation going to render humans sedintary forever. Also, I can't wait for the day to come when technology frees society from the zombie focus on screens it has created in the first place. We are so screen-centric it has turned is into kind of annoying people.

Technology is for helping you achieve your goals more efficiently, not for choosing your goals for you. If you want to be more active, you have to make yourself so.

There are all sorts of fitness apps out there

Technology saves us from hours of tedious, backbreaking activity – scrubbing laundry by hand, shoveling coal into the furnace – and gives us free time instead. How we spend that free time is up to each individual. You may spend all of yours lifting weights and running marathons, if you choose.

well technology has certainly made me more active.

case:

when i am in bed watching TV, because the bed is a king size bed, i lose the remote control among the doonah (or whatever you call them in the USA). when i want to change channels, i feel around for it and stretch and flex and still can't find it, so i have to get up and take the doona off the bed and shake it. often, the control is not there, and i realize it must have dropped off the bed. if it drops off on the side where the bed is pressed against the wall, then i have to pull the bed out and get the remote control on the ground.

this can happen multiple times per night, and certainly causes me to exercise more than i usually would at thattime of night.

The standing desk or (if you want more gadgetry in your technology) multi-height desk are examples of technology (albeit fairly simple technology) that can make people more active for sustained periods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk

If you were designing a small office or home office, you could place the elements that people use often in such a way that people would frequently walk from one area to another and change position as they went through the routine procedures of a working day.

A small business or large office could include stairs and ramps in the office plan so that employees could walk to different levels rather than take elevators.

This would probably do more to increase basic metabolic activity than a wearable device that nagged people to perform specific exercises.

As long as you don't limit your definition of technology to digital, there is a lot that you can do. But you have to want to do it and then design it in.

Pokemon GO?

Virtual reality could definitely be classed as active technology, I remember that the Nintendo Wii had a similar effect and many people even used it for weight loss and exercise regimes. Technology has helped me because you can discover many exercise routines through YouTube.

In the modern era of convenient travel, fitness is a choice for many as we are not longer required to hunter gather resources for our tribe or civilization through physical labour. Artificial Intelligence could also lead to a surge in autonomous jobs which will create a new workforce in the industry, this will cause more and more jobs to be focused on technical skills.

This is exactly how I would put it.

Don't use technology as an excuse not to do physical activity. It actually makes it better for you - a lot of working class jobs are punishing on the body, making productive exercise as opposed to damaging exercise much more difficult.

There is no technology that can compel anyone to be physically active. Only the lack of technology can force people to bust their humps in order to survive.

It is possible to use technology that way, but nothing can compel a person to employ such technology rather than a permissive alternative.

For example, no TV without the exercise bike!-
http://lifehacker.com/build-an-exercise ... 1702378542

People can do this, but generally don't

This is a good question. What we expect from the development of technology? As far as I am concerned, we look forward to ease the way we navigate with the help of technology. Hard work makes us active always. Technology is the easiest way to access things and hence it really makes us lazy.

Technology will definitely make us more active once they perfect sex robots... at least for those of use who care about sex...