[Paul_Denton]

Is HMS storage the same thing as optical neural nets?

[Rca2000]

I described the operation like this(bear in mind this is FICTION, and I just made it up, but tried to make it sound as plausible as possible):

A photosensitive plate, has billions of microscopic "lands" on it. Depending on the phase of the light, a "1" or 0"" is stored in a land, as a result of a change in its reflectivity quotient. The land then retains this state, even when power is off. To change that state, it is merely necessary to alter the phase of the lightpassing over that land. The "1" on a land will then revert to a " 0 ", and vice versa. With billions of these, you then have a viable storage medium, one that is about 100 times faster than a hard drive.