Why would someone want to convert perfectly good energy into light? Well, our current computers run on plain old energy, and they’ve about hit their peak in terms of how much processing power we can jam into their chips. Light-based computers, on the other hand, could theoretically process data at the speed of light, and this new sonic boom could be how we finally do it.
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