You're looking too closely at the exponential curve. At such a small scale (individual decades) it appears to be almost linear - very little difference. Only if

You're looking too closely at the exponential curve. At such a small scale (individual decades) it appears to be almost linear - very little difference. Only if you step back you will see the acceleration. And no, the big innovations of the last decade are not the smartphone and Uber. Those things are fads, which will be forgotten in 20 years, just like we forgot all about audio tapes, and photo printing shops. In my opinion, the real advances of 2005-2015 are the new gene manipulation techniques, brain signal decoding, and deep learning.