It might be some weird nostalgia talking, but I really feel like we hit the optimal digitization somewhere in the 2000s(not to say it was perfect). Important things were digitized and automated, but with paper in hand still. Medical records, purchases, flights, etc. Things that really could use it.
But we all still spoke to each other, went places, and you had to be a big nerd to spend all your time on a screen.
I've been thinking a lot about the reduced rate of return automation has been seeing. Robots are cool and all, but most of what we're getting out of computers nowadays are SaaS business that beg the question "why and to what end?". It's all just grinding for a piece of fat in the grand fat-cutting optimization of life.
None of this is really improving anything, we're not spending money on society-level improvements, those typically just come as a side effect of some other advancement that has taken a core sample out of society for a bit of profit.