Oates' first law of Miniaturisation:
Remember when everyone was talking about miniaturisation? Well, not everyone. But it was a subject of conversation and uninformed opinions about 20 years back. The Japanese were gunna come and make everything tiny and this was a bad thing, apperently. All the things that made your life better were gunna vanish. I don't think anyone actually believed it, but you gotta justify your hate somehow or you become of the 'badguys'.
Anyway, miniaturisation didn't get as far as the hyperbole assumed. You all know this. No one I know has ever lost a walkman or whatever because it was too small. There's a good reason: things got down to a certain size then engineers figured it would be better to keep them that way and just cram more things in.
So summed up in a sentence no one will ever quote: things will shrink to a point and then we'll just shove more shit into them. Gimme some time and I'll try and think of a way to apply that to something else as a metaphor.