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Things that haven't improved exponentially since 1957:

Batteries

Cars

Houses

People

Dishwashers

TVs

Things that have improved exponentially since 1957:

Disk drives

Integrated Circuits

RAM




I would say TVs have. Color, size, brightness, efficiency and resolution are all orders of magnitude higher.


They're better, but only in a linear way, not exponentially.


What's your unit of measurement?

How about data bitrate? Total number of available channels?

Even goosing those, you're not looking at exponential rates of increase.




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