Better Products For The Eighties
January, 1986
Americans love to buy new-and-improved products. In the old days, products were improved by adding some harmless inert substance that was lying around the lab and giving it a fancy name, as in "Now with Floro-Dust!" Nowadays, people don't fall for that kind of cheap trick--today's Yuppie consumers live streamlined lives, and they want streamlined products. The result has been the proliferation of goods that give you everything you could ask for from life, only less. Here are just a few...