Other technologies connect users to a much bigger community. Jennifer Weiss, a forty-eight-year-old orthopedic surgeon in Southern California, rides her Peloton stationary bike in her garage at five-thirty most mornings. The bike connects her to as many as eight hundred riders around the world through a video app, which streams a live workout from Peloton’s New York City studio. The app also sends data about Weiss’s performance to the instructor and a community leaderboard, where every rider is listed according to their bike’s speed and resistance. When Weiss is near someone on the leaderboard
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