A similar trend is apparent in housing, where most people live in smaller homes than they did in the early 20th C, but this is mostly to matter of cost and location rather than materiality and technology. While many will always want larger homes with more space, space and location are not essentially demands for materiality. With such a premium placed on space and location, generations X, Y, and Z are therefore looking to economize on housing and substitute expenditures on experiences, including travel. A portion of housing demand remains a demand for status, a relational demand.
Digtalization:
Pundits suggest the future of the new digital will also depend on voice to digital translation instead of typing or thumbing of messages. Typing and thumbing may prove to be mere transitional human to digital interfaces, on the way to a mature technological interface where the voice projects seamlessly to the cloud and then the world, no longer intermedated by phone lines and other hardware beyond a cell phones and spacially separate wifi, satelite, and cloud computer nodes.
A16z News 4/21/26: https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/4/messages/AAGoGFPycYuSXNapGUiZuVzDvka: Have you spoken to a normie recently? They aren’t actually normal anymore. Nobody is. In all aspects of American life, the internet is upstream of everything else. Sooner or later (and, more often than not, sooner) everyone ends up thinking, speaking, and acting on terms that have been set online. The internet is real life.