To me a singularity does not seem to be approaching. In particular it doesn’t seem like technology is “accelerating faster and faster”. The broadest metric for human progress is GDP growth, and in the U.S. GDP growth hasn’t really been accelerating, it’s been around 2.5% a year for the past decade or so.

AI in particular has made some advances but most basic activities remain undoable. AI cannot fold my laundry or generate a believable sentence well enough for those features to make their way into a consumer product. Voice recognition like Alexa is the only big impact of AI so far, which places it below advances like “touch screen glass” in terms of its impact on society.

It could certainly change. The biggest question right now is whether self driving cars will work, or whether it will fizzle. In the 50’s many car companies thought the next step was inevitably personal airplanes, and that fizzled. So it’s possible it just won’t happen.