I remember being excited about The Machine [1] from HP:
"The Machine will be a complete replacement for current computer system architectures. There will be a new operating system, a new type of memory (memristors), and super-fast buses/peripheral interconnects (photonics)."
"HP says it will commercialize The Machine within a few years, “or fall on its face trying.”"
While HP's "The Machine" specifically appears to never have gone beyond the marketing phase, I think your excitement about the underlying technologies - silicon photonics combined with nonvolative memory combined with resource disaggregation - is valid [0], and they are probably coming.
You can buy NVM today [1], and building systems for resource disaggregation work is an active problem [2].
"The Machine will be a complete replacement for current computer system architectures. There will be a new operating system, a new type of memory (memristors), and super-fast buses/peripheral interconnects (photonics)."
"HP says it will commercialize The Machine within a few years, “or fall on its face trying.”"
It seems later happened...
[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/184165-hp-bets-it-all-on...