A useful analogy: when you stand on a long straight road, perspective makes it look like the road shrinks to a dimensionless point in the distance... a singularity, beyond which you cannot see the road.

Of course if you drive down the road to reach that singularity, you never get there; it recedes before you.

Likewise the idea of a techno-cultural singularity is “real” in that there is a point in our conception of future change beyond we cannot predict what will happen. But as we move toward that point in time, our perception moves forward too, and the singularity recedes before us.