Since it launched last August Flattr widgets have been attached to more than 175, 000 pieces of online content and there have been almost 500, 000 micropayment clicks to them, the company says.
Because of this, the final section of You Are Not a Gadget, in which other futures are imagined, such as a 'micropayment' system for viewing web content which would help content producers small and large make money on something besides advertisements, where Lanier is least convincing, seemingly because the future which he has just outlined is indeed so very bleak.