Abstract: In recent years, a series of breakthroughs have been achieved in the aspects of recording technology and applications of holography. Thus once again holography becomes the focus and attractes much attention all over the world. In this paper, on the basis of reviewing the development of holography in the past years, some influencial research topics in holography, such as holographic display, holographic optical elements, transient holograms, optical scanning holography and holographic information storage are presented and future prospects of holography are exhibited.