Playlist: The Next Question
Compiled By: ABCtech Media Productions
ABCtech Media Productions' flagship program, The Next Question, explores new, emerging and disruptive technologies and their potential impacts on our world. In a world where we're increasingly connected, and living and sharing our lives online, does privacy mean anything anymore? How will new technologies change the way we move? What does the future of energy hold? And what new and innovative ideas will transform our economy? The Next Question explores these challenges and more. ! Packaged as 2-minute segments, The Next Question provides radio stations with concise, attention grabbing, thought provoking pieces for use in a range of different roles. Each segment is a stand- alone episode... Show full description
Privacy: Going... going... gone! (Series)
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Panopticon
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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 the first time that the internet was available to anyone with a computer. Berners-Lee could not have imagined what has become of his invention in the last thirty years.. It’s brought incredible benefits, but what about the risks of this level of connectivity?
Stem Cells - Self-help health care (Series)
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Too Much Of A Good Thing
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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 hunger from the Western world. But could cheap, plentiful food be a bad thing?
Fusion - Everlasting and Clean Energy (Series)
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The Future
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There’s an old joke about fusion power (energy created by fusing atoms) - it’s been ten years away for the last fifty years. But this year saw a major breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California. For the first time, scientists were able to get more energy from a fusion reaction than they had put in.
The potential is staggering - the primary fuel component, deuterium, is present in all the water on Earth. The oceans contain enough of it to fuel our global civilization for literally billions of years.
The question is when? The best predictions now are that, at current funding, fusion reactors will be in operation by the 2050s. But note those words: “at current funding”. The United States, one of the leaders in the field, will spend less than $500 million on fusion research this year. That’s 1/46th what will be spent maintaining the strategic nuclear deterrent.
Fusion power is not a pipedream - it is a matter of us deciding we want it sooner rather than later.Maglev - Hi-speed transportation (Series)
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To The Stars
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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 and we still don’t have our homes in the sky. What’s been holding up man’s exploration of the cosmos?