Three years before Honey, I Shrunk the Kids hit the big screen, the Dead Kennedys released the song "Shrink" on their final album, Bedtime for Democracy. Written by lead singer Jello Biafra, "Shrink" highlights various ways in which smaller people would have a positive impact on the world. Biafra notes, for instance, that there would be less overcrowding, fewer traffic jams, and more food and resources to go around.
Though the height-reduction machine that Biafra envisioned will probably never be realized, thanks to recent breakthroughs in genetic engineering we are just around the corner from achieving the same results: smaller people, less overcrowding, fewer traffic jams, and more food and resources to go around.
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