Let's separate the story arc of your professional career from the present and "The future is starting to feel hostile to me, for the first time in my life" angst.

If you started with pure scientific (algorithmic) programming in Fortran, you've experienced The Longest Journey to get to today, where hell yes the nature of coding has changed. That was back in the day was programming computers was considered a branch of mathematics, silly geese.

I started a few years later, mid '70s, so I started with the first crude microprocessors and assembly language. Even Basic was in the future then. What really made the start of my career different, though, was my first job applying microprocessors and assembly, to early industrial microcontrollers. The things that, for example, kept boilers on an even keel, or monitored an electrical switching station, or changed traffic signals in sync. These computers did things in the real world. And when they crashed, they crashed the real world, which was a drag. But it conditioned me from the beginning to think of computers as part of everyday life, not an abstraction; and the act of coding them an act that affected the real world. Small jump from there to the whole 21st century cornucopia of computers "infesting" everything.

Of course you know that hasn't made me blind to the downsides, including enabling the modern panopticon surveillance state. And the predictable way that organizations use technology to further dehumanize their employees with punitive computer systems. But the issue here is an existential dread of "the ubiquity of digital technology infesting all our home devices, telephones, TVs, automobiles, sound reproduction, cameras, even household appliances" (pro tip: Your household appliances are not out to get you)..."All of our routine administrative functions...Its taking over...And I have come to despise it and fear it. The future is starting to feel hostile to me, for the first time in my life."

And a cold wind is a'blowin', too. But no it's not. Stuff's changed, that's all. I'm trying to say that I've seen essentially the same evolution of technology and particularly computers, but with a slight shift of viewpoint about the relationship of computers to real life, it's not only not awful, but still rather entertaining. For the most part.

Seriously, I'm writing this while taking a break from coding. And seriously, I need to get back to it. But ER, don't dread the evolution of technology and computers. You can't stop it, may as well embrace it. To the extent you want to, since being retired gives you many more options than techies like me still yoked to the keyboard. That's the other thing: If the machines are creeping you out, leave them indoors and go out on the beach and drink tequila till you're blind. That'll fix it right up. You're free to do that now.