Captive Audience by Anne Warren Griffith:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas

"Where too many science fiction scribes content themselves with postulating the same old atomic blowup. Miss Griffith has concocted a truly awful catastrophe for the world of 1984, one that is almost too awful for civilized man to think about."

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Buy-Me-Discs
Tiny disks attached to products in stores that received transmitted ads to share with consumers.

Earplug Decision (Restraint of Advertising)
A Supreme Court judgement that declared that earplugs used to block advertising were unconstitutional.

Master Ventriloquism Corporation (MV)
A central source of product advertising, commercials sent out to every product.

 

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