Not really. I might theoretically have done better in a previous generation (the 60s spring to mind, the advent of Zeppelin etc, what with me being a guitarist) but then again, had I been born in the 60s I would still have probably been the same person I am now, and without Zeppelin etc influencing me to play guitar in the first place, I wouldn't have started, so no rock stardom for me.
Besides, I actually quite like the gaming culture, I think most forms of our media (print, movie) are actually improving, and I also firmly believe it is only ever nostalgia which makes us look back fondly on the past. My parents lived through the 70s and 80s, and they did not like, with many reasons for this. Every generation has its flaws, we just only ever experience our own.