Nice article. Board of Director Jean-Louis Malinge commented :)

Starting a New Race

One trend Feynman did not anticipate in 1959 was that once computing hit the bottom it, might strike out in a new direction entirely. We already use light to move data between continents and cities, and recently between server racks in some data centers. For decades, streams of light laden with information have inched steadily closer to where the real action is happening: the motherboard.

“We are at the point where it’s starting to penetrate the box,” says Jean-Louis Malinge, an engineer and investor who has worked with photonics in telecommunications for 30 years. “The photons are progressively replacing the electrons.”

Clydes