ABCtech Media Productions

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ABCTech Media Production is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Alberta Council of Technologies (ABCTech). ABCTech advocates on behalf of Alberta’s technology-based enterprises, entrepreneurs, and industries for the creation of wealth in Alberta.  ABCtech Media Productions' flagship program, The Next Question, explores new, emerging and disruptive technologies and their potential impact on our world.

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Stem Cells - Self-help health care 
9 Pieces

The Next Question asks provocative questions about new, emerging and disruptive technologies, their potetenial impacts on our lives and their broader impacts on the world around us. This series focuses on Genomics, Cell Therapies and new advances in diabetics research.

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Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy 
6 Pieces

The Next Question asks provocative questions about new, emerging and disruptive technologies, their potential impacts on our lives and their broader impacts on the world around us. This series explores the subject of fusion energy.

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Maglev - Hi-speed transportation 
6 Pieces

The Next Question asks provocative questions about new, emerging and disruptive technologies, their potential impacts on our lives and their broader impacts on the world around us. This series focuses on Magnetic Levitation and automated transportation.

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Privacy: Going... going... gone! 
6 Pieces

The Next Question asks provocative questions about new, emerging and disruptive technologies, their potetenial impacts on our lives and their broader impacts on the world around us. This series focuses on the collection, storage and analysis of big data and its potential impacts on privacy.

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Panopticon
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Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland, announced the debut of the World Wide Web, marking...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Who Decides
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Health
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Consumer
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Permanent Record
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Too Much Of A Good Thing
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Burden of Care
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetics suffer from many health complications and disabilities, but they’re not the only ones who are affected by their condition. In this episod...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Pig Insulin
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Edmonton Protocol
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
Caption: Dr. Ray Rajotte, Scientific Director at the Alberta Diabetes Institute.
Edmonton, Alberta isn’t the place you’d necessarily expect to be making breakthrough medical advances. But that’s just what has been happening in t...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
What Triggers Type 1
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, th...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00

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Benjamin Ryder (Admin)
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Brendan Van Alstine (Admin)
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Michael Flood (Admin)
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