This author rails about how scientific progress isn't exponential; but that's not even relevant. The idea of accelerating returns was only ever meant to apply

This author rails about how scientific progress isn't exponential; but that's not even relevant. The idea of accelerating returns was only ever meant to apply to information technologies. Though they are related on various levels, fundamentally, science != technology. Only when scientific processes are converted into information technologies do they start becoming exponential (as was the case with genome sequencing).