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I find it fun to think back to the 1970s and try to guess which products would get bigger and which products would get smaller..

eg (UK-centric list, maybe):

* TVs - they were supposed to get smaller, they're huge now

* HiFi - bigger surely, and they did for a bit during the 1980s ("when you die they'll bury you in it")

* Womens' cars - are now bigger than mens' cars by far

* Men's underpant - bigger

* Women's underpants - smaller

etc



Men and women have different cars? Where is this? The US?


I see this in a small sector of the rich middle classes here in the UK - a rich wife, often a mother, has a huge SUV for the school run whilst the husband has a town car for parking at the railway station or has a sales rep standard issue.


Bradbury predicted much bigger TV's in the 1950's.




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