"One holographic storage disk will hold millions and millions of holograms. You'll be able to store a large university's entire archives on 10 holographic disks. By the time it gets to the desktop, in the outer edge of 10 years, transfer rates will be up to 100MB per second. Audio-video applications will drive the need for this type of storage. People are going to need to store hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes of video, and we'll be able to make the media very cheap."
Kevin Curtis, program manager of holographic storage development at Bell Labs (a unit of Lucent Technologies)
