Title is a reference to Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think. In this story something does come of it. A floating point processor run amok as a self-aware generated book. It borked my e-reader even. The second part of a trilogy of separate but connected and overlapping stories.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think