Small things can have effects far beyond what their size (or even utility) might warrant. As in the classically proverbial case, for want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe, the horse was lost, a rider was lost, a message was lost, and so forth to losing a kingdom. A nail is a small, almost insignificant thing… until you don’t have one. Or putting it another way, when the conditions are right it doesn’t take much to start a landslide – shoving aside tons of boulders, trees, telephone poles and buildings, and grinding the unlucky people who happen to get in its way into, well – small things of much less utility to their original owners. And the trigger of the landslide might be as small as a misstep nudging a pebble, which cascades into a terrain-altering event. The particular instance of one small, remaindered, heavily discounted cell phone - an item that would have been rather unremarkable pretty much anywhere from the slums of New Delhi to a street in Beverly Hills - found in the Nevada desert in high summer in a pool of liquid air in 1954 proved to be an interesting pebble that started an avalanche – and that avalanche gained momentum quickly after it was dropped. What will be left when the avalanche stops moving?