Internet Kill Switch

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to shame.”
    “But you make jokes and can be sarcastic and stuff.”
    “It’s because I’ve got algorithms in my software that are unlike anything ever created before. I’m not just restricted to programmed answers.”
    “Yeah, I can see that . But you don’t belong to me. How do I return you to whoever made you?”
    “ Why would you return me? It’s pretty likely that I’m the best thing that ever happened to you.”
Tony frowned. “Think a lot of yourself, don’t you?”
    “ It’s all part of my programming, bucko. Whoever made me knew I’d be the greatest invention since bacon. By the way, you’re about to set your house on fire. The water’s all boiled out of the pot.”
    Tony turned and saw the smoke rising from the empty pot. He put the phone down and rushed to the stove.

8
     
    The next morning was Saturday, and Tony was awakened by Maroon 5’s “Just the Way You Look Tonight”. The music, playing low, came from the phone. The sound, to Tony’s ears, was incredible; he’d never heard such richness and clarity from a phone.
    He rolled over and looked at the phone. The screen displayed the time in large black numbers on a white background: 9:45 a.m. Tony , amazed, shook his head.
    “Hey, how did you know to wake me up now? This is always when I wake up on Saturday, but I forgot to set my alarm last nigh t.”
    The phone answered cheerily. “Good morning, sleepyhead. I woke you up now because you have your Halo game with the guys at 10:30. This should give you enough time to shower and eat something.”
    Tony stopped on his way to the bathroom. “How do you know stuff like that?”
    “The events page on your Facebook account. By the way, Hans won’t be able to make it today. He’s on vacation in Switzerland with his parents.”
    “You know, I’m not sure I like you snooping around my Facebook account like that,” Tony said as he finished up in the bathroom. “It makes me nervous.”
    “But if I hadn’t, you’d have slept right through your Halo game, the team would’ve lost, and they would have hated you forever. Then you would’ve killed yourself in a fit of remorse. I’m just trying to save your life.”
    Tony yawned. “In that case, thanks. A lot.” He picked up the phone and walked to the kitchen. There was a note from his Mom on the counter.
    Tony, I picked up a double shift. Back by noon. Love, Mom.
    She worked at the 7 Eleven a mile down the road. Tony didn’t like her working overnight; that’s when the robberies always seemed to happen. But it did mean she got all the hours she wanted, since everyone else hated the graveyard shift.
    Tony poured a glass of orange juice and pulled out a cast-iron frying pan from a cabinet over the stove. He cracked a couple of eggs into the pan and put two slices of bread into the toaster, then picked up the phone.
    “I don’t see any battery meter on you,” he told the phone. “I thought you’d be dead or at least really low on power. I didn’t realize it until a few minutes ago, but there was no power cord nearby when I found you.”
    “Or any place to plug a cord in,” the phone said.
“Yeah, that’s true too. How do you get power?”
    “Solar. I’ve got a series of small panels on both the front and back . They’re hidden underneath the outer shell, which still lets the light in. All I need is a light source – even the light from a dim lamp is enough. Of course, sunlight is best, and you fortunately left me on your windowsill last night. I got all I needed while you were still asleep this morning.”
    Tony shook his head. “Amazing. Whoever invented you thought of everything.”
    The phone agreed. “ I’m telling you, my inventor was a smart friggin’ man.”
    The toast popped up, and Tony set to buttering it.
    “We still don’t know who that is, though. You don’t have any numbers stored in you, do you?”
    “Nope. And I’ve spent a lot of time trying to piece together who might have created me. It could be
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