Right, and the next doubling will be even better (twice as good!). But the sense that we're right on the threshold of the infinite future has probably been around at least since industrialization.
For example, that bit about instant access to people and knowledge was probably said about the telegraph too.
Sure, I agree. My only point is that people seem to underestimate the regular, non-singularity exponential doubling. Already some aspects of science and civilization have become more far-fetched than the sci-fi of 50 years ago. Like http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/
For example, that bit about instant access to people and knowledge was probably said about the telegraph too.