Progress in nearly all areas of human endeavor is inextricably linked to improvements in computers. Transistors, the workhorse of traditional computers, aren't improving. They're simply too hot. Ever-growing datacenters are a dead end path along the road of computational progress. We need a new computing paradigm: optical computing. Lightmatter's optical compute platforms are faster and use less energy. We're simultaneously enabling the growth of computing and reducing its impact on our planet.