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Episode 6: A Truly “Personal” Digital Assistant Zack spent the rest of Friday, until about two in the morning, digging into the code inside the devices. He couldn’t, obviously, read the programming inside the programming device itself, and so he instead had to write some software that would fool it into thinking it had sent a message over the Internet when in fact the codes had only been saved to a file on his hard drive. It took him only three hours to do that, for it was straightforward work. By the time he was finished, satisfied with his progress, he was very tired. He climbed into bed, and fell asleep quickly. His dreams were still troubling, for he was worried about what Adam was doing, what was happening behind his back. He would need …

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Episode 7: Debugging The Code Zack was zipping down the street on his new scooter. He’d been out and about just having fun on it for the last hour. Finally, he decided to head on over to Brian’s house, to show him his new toy. He zoomed around the next corner, and headed off for that part of town. Zack noticed immediately that Brian’s pickup truck was gone, so Brian was almost certainly not home. Oh well, he thought. I’ll show it to Wendy, then. Zack knocked on the door, and then walked in, calling out a greeting. He heard Mrs. Selman call out from the kitchen, and so he went in that direction. As he entered the kitchen, he saw Mrs. Selman sitting at the table. She looked very dejected as she stared down …

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Episode 8: Cheat Code The next day, Zack took a trip down to the library, but he didn’t go inside. Instead, he sat on a bench outside the library. He had a book in his hands, but he wasn’t reading; it was merely to keep people from bugging him. His eyes were closed (though no one could have told that, since he was wearing sunglasses), and it was his mind that was doing the watching. Zack’s consciousness was inside of his own mind, watching the colors of the people fly by at ever-decreasing speeds. He wondered if this meant he was gaining some control, but he wasn’t sure. Most of the emotions he sensed were some variation of boredom, which was why these people had come to the library. In one case, he saw someone …

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