On Jan. 1, 2009, at his father's urging, Sutton launched a movie, restaurant and gadget-review Web site called Kid Critic.

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The longer it takes them to figure out how to process, for example, a discarded Treo 600--a 32-megabyte gadget with phone, e-mail, Web access, an organizer and a camera--the less ReCellular will be able to resell it for.

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Even figuring out who to consult for advice can pose a problem: Should you trust reviews from full-time gadget reviewers or consult the ever-growing number of Web sites that solicit opinions from their amateurs?

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The design of the physical device gets out of the way of the gadget's software--which lets it morph from being a Web browser to a media player to a phone and back again.

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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.

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