Universal Operating System

Once there was a blank piece of paper. The end. No, just joking. In a world where digital, metaphysical and consciousness are past the point of no return, How do we earn our daily bread? What gives our lives meaning? I believe that the technological singularity is like an event horizon - once crossed, we would have no way of knowing we had passed it. So, how do we know we haven't passed it? This haunts me every day, the only way forward I can see.