@thomasfuchs History moves on several axes at the same time. Some of them backwards at times. I think it’s sane to pick from each period some specific items and trash the rest.
One can get inspired by 1950’s design furniture and not wish to go back to such dark times for minorities.
In terms of computing retro doesn’t always mean going back to the 80s but trying to rebuild some human joy that existed in the tech itself before advertising and A.I. took hold. Neo-retro as some say