I'm going to suggest giving Accelerando a read and consider the late state of the singularity.

http://www.accelerando.org

(heh - checking that link Charlie Stross just posted (Jan 31) a blog post: "An AI app walks into a writers room")

Anyways the link I was actually after ... give https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... a read and consider the "what happens in the later parts of the book."