When I think about his Accelerando novel and how he describes the Vile Offspring as the descendants of mankind who ultimately inherit the Solar System, I sometimes wonder if Excel Spreadsheets describing every aspect of a Corporation could in a way become minimally self-aware and compete for resources with each other.

If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty.

In fact, most of the pieces are available: lots of servers offer some free bandwidth and some free hosting space, bitcoin wallets can be opened, ready to receive donations from people all over the world... There just needs to be a software engine that can create content people want in an autonomous way and here come the Vile Offspring.