Downsizing will be the coming decade's biggest trend. Large companies have been doing it for a decade.
Government claims to be doing it now.
Families and individuals are next. Not that families will start laying off unproductive teenagers, or closing outdated houses, but that people will change their value system in the coming decade and terms like small, specialty, and quality will be of greatest value. For instance, the downsizing trend will affect housing. The notion that every succeeding house should be bigger and better will collapse, even among women. This will radically alter the housing market in the next 20 years.