For more in this line, check out Newton's Wake, by Ken MacLeod. In that book, there are combat archeologists: people who go places where a singularity blew thr

For more in this line, check out Newton's Wake, by Ken MacLeod. In that book, there are combat archeologists: people who go places where a singularity blew through, leaving all manner of post-singularity technology lying around, and they have to make sense of it to use them or steal ideas from them, only they have to do this in the midst of armed conflict over ownership of those things.