Might be the organization that will produce the first application.
Other technological inventions, besides quantum computers and light sabres?
Consider what we are discussing. Light beams that interact with each other.
Light that is a particle and a waveform.
With advancements;
Holodeck emitters
Space elevator platform stabilizer
Space Station light tethers (connecting two or more stations)
With enough energy and particles it might one day be possible to push regular matter with light.
NASA has already invented an Ion Drive and it does work.
What if there was a light drive? Sure there isn't much mass in a photon particle but if it were multiplied and beefed up, who knows?
The next big step would be to entangle regular matter with a photon particle, say a carbon atom? The article states that the photon speed slows a bit while entangled but it still moves 66.6% of c. To accelerate a carbon atom to 66% of c would be a huge break thru.
While photons normally have no mass and travel at 300,000 kilometers per second (the speed of light), the researchers found that the bound photons actually acquired a fraction of an electron's mass. These newly weighed-down light particles were also relatively sluggish, traveling about 100,000 times slower than normal noninteracting photons.
Even at 50% of c would be astonishing. Plus if they could add a few bosons to the mix to create a bose-einstein condensate, the low temps would keep the carbon atom from burning up from resistance.
Then you have a carbon cannon at half the speed of light.
Our fastest machine ever propelled was Helios (0.0002 of c)
In 1974 and 1976, NASA launched a pair of German probes called Helios I and II. When their highly-elongated orbits swung them close by the sun, they reached speeds in the neighborhood of—get this—157,000 miles per hour (70 km/s). Helios II was the speedier of the two by a hair, making it the fastest man-made object in history. For all that unimaginable speed, the Helios probes traveled at only 0.000234 times the speed of light.