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Well, simply no. Almost all proposed uses for CDs are rather impractical or would be popular only among some geeks. Without computers to use recorded data, CD means just a better walkman.
Don't underrate walkmans. They were behind the Iranian revolution. Tape recordings allowed a cleric to spread his message to a much larger audience.
I was going to say... aren't the USSR and Iran two of the paradigmatic cases for new media technologies helping enable revolutions?