Project objective?

What is the focus of the projects? Is it cultural touchstones? Surely we’re not going to load millions of people born in those years into projects?

It often helps to have a master list to work from.

In 1996, Life magazine published a list of their 50 most influential Baby Boomers. Maybe the project could focus on those folks to start, using them as cultural touchstones for people born in that era in the Western world.

Note that, as with all of these generational lists, it is very U.S.-centric.

1. Steven Spielberg
2. Steve Jobs
3. Bill Clinton
4. Michael Milken
5. Oprah Winfrey
6. Edward Witten
7. Bill Gates
8. Bob Pittman
9. Michael Jordan
10. Roseanne Barr
11. Rush Limbaugh
12. John Belushi
13. Jann Wenner
14. Madonna
15. Ralph Reed
16. Ben and Jerry
17. Michael Ovitz
18. Bruce Springsteen
19. Magic Johnson
20. Garry Trudeau
21. Bert Vogelstein
22. Maya Lin
23. Randy Shilts
24. Hillary Rodham Clinton
25. Bill Kristol
26. Craig McCaw
27. Annie Leibovitz
28. Matt Groening
29. David Letterman
30. Stephen King
31. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
32. Wynton Marsalis
33. Oliver Stone
34. Dean Ornish
35. O.J. Simpson
36. Susan Faludi
37. Donna Karan
38. David Mamet
39. Spike Lee
40. Karen Silkwood
41. Larry Forgione
42. Michael Jackson
43. Jodie Foster
44. Howard Stern
45. Mark Morris
46. Clarence Thomas
47. Francis Collins
48. Steven Brill
49. Tony Kushner
50. Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

There are some other good lists that would diversify things a bit, including:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/the-boomer-list-photo-gall...

https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2014/baby-boomer...

But again, finite parameters are great, because we don't want a situation where every single MP for someone born in a certain time period gets added to a project. Let's have a list or lists and then stick with those names?

The goal of this particular thread is to help the project gain more value by establishing a clear objective for it. If you have suggestions for an objective, that would be great!