I'm sure that, like most of your contemporaries, you have contributed to some of the changes we have seen over the last forty years.
However, I have to offer some strong support to your wife! Four words out of seven is a significant part of your argument. You said "Now days I do not see as much innovation. I fear we have run out of forward thinking minds. Is this generation spoiled and complacent?". How can you possibly justify that based only on the contributions to existing technologies that you have cited?
I provided an example of a major, recent shift in technology that you chose to ignore.