Batteries
Cars
Houses
People
Dishwashers
TVs
Things that have improved exponentially since 1957:
Disk drives
Integrated Circuits
RAM
How about data bitrate? Total number of available channels?
Even goosing those, you're not looking at exponential rates of increase.
Batteries
Cars
Houses
People
Dishwashers
TVs
Things that have improved exponentially since 1957:
Disk drives
Integrated Circuits
RAM