For about the last two decades, the buzz in computer advances and storage is the so-called quantum computing concept.
In the normal traditional information storage, information is stored in binary form, like magnetic north-south orientation, electrical on-off storage, etc.
However, with quantum storage, computers deal with a triple-state of zeros, ones, and both simultaneously.
But, possibly, the origin of this computer paradigm began when early computer scientists started to work with triple-reels magnetic tape storage. Three reels tape recorders? Yep, see for yourself...