The Dream Electric — Michael Wallace

The Dream Electric is a study in Artifical Intelligence, based on Nano-Bots that become conscious. At first they appear to be the greatest boon that man has ever invented, but they go past their programming and now threaten all of existence with rampant, uncontrolled evolution. But a saviour appears, not your conventional hero, but an archaic and long thought decomissioned Old Earth A.I. Can a thirteen hundred year old piece of machinery save mankind?