> I miss the time when computing was a lot less political.

Whether such a time ever existed is debatable.

Here's a test. Define the period that you're imagining. Then investigate this period as a point in the history of computing with its broader sociopolitical contexts.

Somewhere in the midst of that milieu I reckon or the politics you're likely to be fond to mix with your tech projects.

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colechristensen 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Most "conservative" opinions are basically "I miss when I was young and wasn't aware of all of the stuff happening around me and want modern reality to be like my incorrect perception of how things were in my youth"

	▲	tolerance 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That was the direction I was going to head in first before I was less confident in my assumption of the parent commenter's age based on their username. It's a good direction to take and adds in the possibility, for example, that one may investigate the past and find themselves unintentionally and retroactively complicit in everything between the atomic bomb to US intervention in Libya. And now I'm curious about the likelihood of a youth who will know no age better than our present, in the future. You might like this thread from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46505934
	▲	rapnie 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yes, that is a more honest assessment than longing for the time "when computing was much less political". It simply wasn't, and not recognizing that leads directly to the mess we have today and onwards towards bleak future.
	▲	lynx97 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is quite a condescending take. I get that you are extrapolating from my post that I might be conservative. That needs more nuance, but I get it. But to assume I always was, and used to be ignorant, is too far reaching. In fact, I used to be a lot more progressive in the past.