Thanks to the power of the Internet and some good work by Singapore Airlines, I’ve checked in for my flight to Singapore 43 hours before I board the plane.
Some old fashioned technology is also helping: plastic bags. Not the supermarket variety, but the type with a valve at one end and a sealable opening at the other that can be used to expel air from clothing, to result in a brick of clothes that takes up far less space than the uncompressed clothes would.
Technology is awesome.