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.

Pieces

Let There Be Light
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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For the past fifty years physicists around the world have been trying to create a fusion power reactor, harnessing the processes deep inside of sta...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Power
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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The Earth gets almost all of its energy from the Sun. It grows plants and creates our climate. Even the fossil fuels we burn are the remains of pla...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
War
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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It was early morning, November first, nineteen fifty-two. The scientists who had gathered on the beautiful Enewetak (A-ne-we-tak) Atoll in the Sout...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Magnet and the Train
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
In the Beginning
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Privacy
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Privacy: Going... going... gone!
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We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Diabetes in History
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?

  • Added: May 15, 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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