General Discussion

So you're looking for advances since 1980 and are having a hard time coming up with any? The OLDEST of the boomers in 1980 was 34, the youngest under 18. The period after 1980 is the period of time you'd EXPECT boomers to make their contributions. If there have been none, I'm not sure you can really lump them in as "innovators".

I would suggest that if you work in the IT industry and don't see a difference between technology in 1980 and current technology, there's nothing I'm going to write here that makes you "see the light". The mere fact that we've gone from a computer in 1980 that would cost a few month's salary, weigh as much as 30 lbs, and only a relatively small number of people could operate, to one magnitudes more powerful that you by for a relatively low cost that a 3 year old can carry around in the palm of his hand and operate shows some innovation.

I imagine if you ask people in the LGBT community, they're probably much better off than they were in 1980 as well.

I'm not even going to list the number of medical advancements (drugs, equipment, procedures) that have become standard use in the last 30+ years.

Are you fond of saving energy or the environment? You shouldn't have any trouble finding innovations for this over that time span either.

Remember the video game "pong" and claymation cartoons? You don't see much of those anymore. I wonder why.

They got this little car driving around on mars now, a permanent station in outer space for research.

Mapping the human genome. The large Hadron Collider.