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Luiz Davidovich's affiliations include @conexaoufrj.bsky.social, @abciencias.bsky.social, TWAS, @iapartnership.bsky.social, @apsphysics.bsky.social, @optica.org, the European Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
These challenges, alongside the massive energy demands required, raise open questions about whether quantum computing will ultimately scale. For more from Davidovich, see his other InterDialogue: buff.ly/EmyS0l4
Key technical barriers remain unresolved, especially the fragility of quantum systems. Environmental interference can rapidly destroy entanglement, as demonstrated in experiments Davidovich conducted in Brazil on “entanglement sudden death.”
Davidovich also pushes back against the hype that often surrounds quantum computing. He is particularly critical of the role of marketing in shaping public expectations, arguing that it can distort scientific judgment and undermine ethical responsibility.
Researchers in Brazil often rely on remote access to foreign quantum computers, but this comes at a significant financial cost, reinforcing inequalities in scientific capacity. Learn more in the full InterDialogue: buff.ly/pvyl1nQ
Building quantum computers is less a physics challenge—“the physics is well known,” he says—and more an engineering one, requiring highly specialized expertise and infrastructure. Only a handful of institutions—primarily in the US, Europe, and China—possess working systems.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, Brazilian physicist Luiz Davidovich explains how quantum computing research in Brazil reflects a broader global imbalance: while there are active efforts in software and theory, the hardware remains prohibitively expensive and technically demanding.
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Paulo Murillo is an assistant professor at Tolima University and a NASA collaborator. Hear more about him and his work in his InterDialogue on land use science, remote sensing, and socializing the pixel: buff.ly/ucyRLlf
Yet the broader implication is clear: even as AI expands the analytical frontier, land system science cannot rely on computation alone. Meaningful interpretation still depends on integrating algorithmic insights with local knowledge, social context, and grounded expertise.
However, these systems are only as powerful as their data inputs. AI models require “prodigious amounts of training data” to function, and their outputs remain shaped by the limitations of those datasets. Still, at increasingly fine resolutions, AI-driven remote sensing is unlocking new capacities.
These advances allow scientists like Murillo to detect patterns, track changes, and respond to environmental dynamics with unprecedented speed. “Artificial intelligence is going to play an increasingly powerful role in the next decade,” says Murillo.
In an article for The InterPlex, Colombian land use and remote sensing scientist Paulo Murillo explains that “advanced algorithms can now classify satellite imagery much better than previous algorithms,” enabling a dramatic leap in accuracy and scale. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/J7iIiAb
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Gómez Soto's affiliations include the Science Panel for the Amazon and Gaia Amazonas. Learn more about the importance of decentralization and the report to which she contributed in a recent InterPlex article: buff.ly/vHrkCqi
Building flexible context-based infrastructures that allow local initiatives to scale on their own terms represents a viable path toward a holistic and sustainable socio-bioeconomy for the Amazon. Learn more in the full InterDialogue: buff.ly/gzV23v9
These hubs are meant to support self-organizing systems that can adapt to the Amazon’s rich biocultural diversity while strengthening local economies, enabling circular resource use, and expanding access to decentralized energy solutions.
What is needed, says Gómez Soto, is “a range of hubs of different sizes... that interact with local, regional, and global markets in different scales.” This implies the development of decentralized, distributed hubs that function as local energy nodes connecting communities to larger networks.
This requires moving away from centralized, commodity-driven models. Instead of focusing on what products are developed, she suggests prioritizing how systems are organized, combining local and traditional knowledge with technical and scientific expertise to solve bottlenecks.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, anthropologist and environmentalist Mariana Gómez Soto discusses scaling socio-bioeconomies in the Amazon, as proposed in the Science Panel for the Amazon’s 2025 Assessment Report, in which she was the lead author of the “Connectivity for socio-bioeconomies” chapter.
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Rasolt's perspective became particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, which disproportionately impacted rural and off-grid communities. Read the article, to which Prias contributed, here: buff.ly/izHW7ov
Prias’s perspective parallel's Daniel Henryk Rasolt's in an article on decentralized energy technologies. Rasolt argues that a decentralized approach to clean energy strengthens long-term resilience, autonomy, and the ability to integrate new technologies as they emerge.
Prias argues that the success of decentralized energy in Colombia will depend not just on technology, but on whether communities can organize and maintain these systems independently, without reliance on others. Learn more in the full InterDialogue: buff.ly/MpAY8HO
The Colombian state has begun facilitating workshops and pilot initiatives to introduce communities to decentralized energy solutions like solar, wind, and biogas. However, technology deployment is advancing faster than the social infrastructure required to sustain it.
Regulatory clarity, pricing structures, and governance models are still being defined, and efforts to build local capacity lag behind policy ambition. “It’s not just about setting up technology… We need to better define the governance of energy communities,” says Prias.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, electrical engineer Omar Prias discusses Colombia’s energy transition policy, decentralized systems, and community models. While policymakers increasingly recognize “energy communities” as important to the energy sector, implementation is uneven.
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Omar Prias is professor at the National University of Colombia and former president of the Colombian Energy and Gas Regulatory Commission (CREG). Among other affiliations, he currently directs the Energy Sector Research Group (GRISEC) and the Colombian Network on Energy Efficiency (RECIEE).
