"Zanzibar", "Sheep" or "Shockwave", corporate America managed to lobby for a constitutional amendment that made it a punishable offense to block advertising (on first amendment grounds) because it was an attempt to deny or obstruct free speech to the advertiser. Someone who had developed software to block out advertising could be arrested if he tried to use it, or market it.

One of those same books also described how the firearms industry lobbied for a federal law authorizing a subsidy for firearms purchases to impoverished or poverty communities. The rationale was that the second amendment guaranteed the right of citizens to bear arms, but some citizens were too poor to afford to buy any, so a sort of "gun welfare" bill was passed so that even the underprivileged could be armed too. Kind of affirmative action (gun stamps?) for gun nuts.

Another innovation Brunner predicted was right around the corner was a standardized contract printed on every consumer item, from a can of beans to an automobile, that would protect the manufacturer of the product from legal action by the consumer in the event it was unsafe or otherwise unsatisfactory. The contract was considered signed by the consumer, and its terms accepted, upon purchase of the product.

Think of a Trump, or a Cruz, Supreme Court...the possibilities are endless.