Knowledge Garden

Reading and research

A curated collection of research and reading on emerging technology, business and climate.

Elevation and friction on the Front Range

How Denver and Boulder became a global centre for location science, remote sensing and orbital intelligence.

Project GeospatialColorado Read it

Quantum and climate

The next two waves

New Mexico is buying itself a quantum industry

Three million dollars to the Quantum New Mexico Institute for talent, research infrastructure and commercialization, inside a state commitment that already runs past four hundred and fifty million.

Quantum Computing ReportQuantum Read it

An index for quantum adoption inside enterprises

From HorizonX and Resonance in London. A way to compare how far along an organization actually is, rather than how much of the technology it has bought.

The Quantum IndexQuantum Follow the index

Methane, rice fields and a million carbon credits

Google has agreed to buy a million credits from Mitti Labs through 2030, generated by keeping rice fields flooded for less time. Around half the methane and forty percent less irrigation water, with no drop in yield.

TechCrunchClimate Read it

Artificial intelligence and work

What changes, who it hits, and what it takes

If artificial intelligence changes work, education has to change too

If the shape of work is changing this quickly, the institutions that prepare people for it can’t stay still.

Financial Times Read it

Enough debate about the AI jobpocalypse. Plan for the messy middle.

Economist Molly Kinder on what workers can actually expect. Not abundance or apocalypse, but 15 to 18 million back office, customer service and clerical jobs, held mostly by women, and what we can do about it.

Center for Humane TechnologyWork Read it

Maturity isn’t about how much artificial intelligence you have

Databricks Read it

Colorado

Where the applied future is being built

Colorado as a laboratory for the applied future

Research, aerospace, geospatial technology, energy and a culture that values the natural world.

University of Colorado CU AI Institute