“Los Angeles, 2029 AD. The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades.
..” So begins The Terminator , the 1984 sci-fi action flick whose titular character proved the defining role of Arnold Schwarzenegger ’s Hollywood career.
Now the actor, former professional bodybuilder, and two-term governor of California is back with a new directive—in a reality not that incredibly far off from the one in which he played a time-traveling cyborg assassin. After all, we’re fewer than 50 months from 2029, AI has woven its way into everyday life , and Schwarzenegger is joining the C-suite at a Fortune 500 medtech firm that manufactures smart knee implants and completed the world’s first robotic-assisted shoulder replacement surgery . He’s Zimmer Biomet ’s inaugural chief movement officer.
“We know that ‘you rest, you rust.’ And as soon as you start getting inactive and you start sitting around and lying around, that’s the beginning of looking toward your death, as sad as it sounds,” Schwarzenegger tells Fortune . “Every medical study, every fitness study indicates that the more we move , the more we walk—just taking a walk after lunch, taking a walk after dinner , after breakfast, or just walking around casually—will help you.
” The seven-time Mr. Olympia champion added, “You don’t have to be a competitive athlete in order to really make this happen.” In 2024, mankind is hardly on the verge of .
