Holographic memory for real?

[anhinga_anhinga]

After 40+ years of talking about holographic memory and seeing research prototypes, it seems that we are going to get 300GB holographic optical disks in 2006. I wonder whether we will actually be able to exploit the fact that they are holographic for better associative memory access schemes...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/11/28/141241.shtml

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8370

http://www.inphase-technologies.com/