"It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on humanoid height."
[Extract from coversation of Joe Ordinary in Local Puborama]
"I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold.
It's said now that people will be shorter in height,
they can fit twice as many in the same building site.
(they say it's alright),
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow,
in the interest of humanity, they've been told they must go,
told they must go-go-go-go."Get 'em out by Friday
Genesis, in their Peter Gabriel era, foresee Professor Liao's suggestion that the human race should engineer itself to be smaller. (H/T PMT in the comments)