Surely you're not serious? The innovation that CDs and DVDs made possible is mind boggling. Digital music, video, gaming, none of these were possible with the e

Surely you're not serious? The innovation that CDs and DVDs made possible is mind boggling. Digital music, video, gaming, none of these were possible with the existant storage densities and prices. They're clearly not the final solution to data storage but they bridged an important gap in bootstrapping widespread computer usage.