Quote from the blog:
The more I see tiny, slither-like properties like this, the more I am convinced I am staring at a dystopian future – five, ten, 15 years away, but not much more – where this, for young people, is the norm. We are only one more Channel 4 show about people living in innovatively designed vans, or one more "we bought a Japanese pod hotel to London!" press release, or one sub-reddit of nerds watching Ready Player One and thinking, 'Yes, actually, I could live inside of a van stacked on top of another van, as long as I have a VR headset to escape to' until we reach the point of no return. Because here we are, slowly abrading the acceptable dimensions of a space we might deem liveable, ever pinching square inches away from the very minimum we might find acceptable.
Indeed. Like that Black Mirror where they live in pods and have to bike for coins that they then gamble away on the game show thingy.