Decade of Light
From the lasers that make it to the fibers that carry it-the hardware of light is booming. According to the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA), which tracks component sales, growth in flat-panel displays will continue to top all segments as they begin to replace cathode-ray tube monitors on desktops. Sales of light sources, such as lasers and light-emitting diodes,will be driven by increasing use of optical disks for data storage, as well as fast-growing fiberoptic telecommunications networks. By 2002, OIDA predicts, the industry will be selling some 80 million kilometers of optical fiber per year.
Keep Reading
Most Popular
The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it
Exclusive conversations that take us behind the scenes of a cultural phenomenon.
Sam Altman invested $180 million into a company trying to delay death
Can anti-aging breakthroughs add 10 healthy years to the human life span? The CEO of OpenAI is paying to find out.
ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like.
New large language models will transform many jobs. Whether they will lead to widespread prosperity or not is up to us.
GPT-4 is bigger and better than ChatGPT—but OpenAI won’t say why
We got a first look at the much-anticipated big new language model from OpenAI. But this time how it works is even more deeply under wraps.
Stay connected
Get the latest updates from
MIT Technology Review
Discover special offers, top stories, upcoming events, and more.