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

Risks of Cell Therapies
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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One promising new treatment for diabetes is transplanting healthy pancreatic cells into diabetics to restore their ability to digest sugars. What a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Diabetes Epidemic
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetes used to be a fatal but very rare disease. Now rates of Type Two diabetes are soaring worldwide. What’s responsible for the spike in cases?

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Treating Diabetes
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Stem Cells - Self-help health care
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Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
To The Stars
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Impact of Automated Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Back in 1958 Popular Science published an article about General Motor’s plan to build self-driving cars guided by electrical cables in roadways. Gi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
History of Automated Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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The most common element in all accidents is the human element. In the quest to eliminate driver error and make our roads safer, we’ve been searchin...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Electrifying Transportation
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Magnetic River
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
The Future
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Fuel
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy
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Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...

  • Added: Jun 04, 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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