Benjamin Ryder
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- PRX Member
- Role: Producer Group Staff
Recent Pieces from Benjamin Ryder
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Panopticon
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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 ...
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Who Decides
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean anything anymore in an age of ...
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Health
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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 rate, blood pressure, ...
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Consumer
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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?
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Permanent Record
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Today, we hear increasing talk about Big Data, supposedly about to revolutionize everything from the way wars are fought and policies are shaped to the way we buy products. ...
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Too Much Of A Good Thing
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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 ...
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The Burden of Care
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Diabetics suffer from many health complications and disabilities, but they’re not the only ones who are affected by their condition. In this episode we explore the cost to ...
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Pig Insulin
(02:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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 insulin; what if we want to cure ...
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The Edmonton Protocol
(04:00)
From: ABCtech Media Productions
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 the labs of the Alberta ...
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