"big changes are coming, we'd better get ready!" that seems to suggest someone else other than us is creating thise changes and they are going to catch us unaw

"big changes are coming, we'd better get ready!" that seems to suggest someone else other than us is creating thise changes and they are going to catch us unawares. The rate at which change happens in technology is painstakingly slow. Each rev of a product typically takes a year. Scientific research typically takes even longer. At such a slow rate of change its hard to imagine something is going to hit us in the face before we know it. Instead, it's more likely we'll chart a slow path towards the future. Slow enough that even somehting like the singularity, if it were to happen would occur over an extended period of time which would mean it would no longer be a singularity but a far more gradual change.