Libraries, local game stores, and hobby shops remain places where real human interaction occurs. I recently learned that a local independent hardware store is closing, though, and you can't really replace that with Amazon.
We are going through a version of upheaval for sure, but I hesitate to be either gloom-and-doom or glowingly optimistic about the unknown outcomes. Luddites feared machinery would replace humans during the Industrial Revolution, but it boosted productivity and safety. Technological unemployment has never yet been the consequence of technological upheaval, although the changes are never smooth.
On the other hand, the megacorporations and governments seem to be conspiring against us through laws and "nudging" into always accepting more of a surveillance state in the name of "safety and convenience."
So many of our local stores have closed. Because the entire downtown core is a "historical district," there are strict "no chains" rules in place, but they are having a heck of a time filling the vacant spaces, and most of them seem to be taken over by yet another real estate office.
The "surveillance state" is a menace... although the US is nowhere near as bad as some parts of Europe. In London, for example, there seems to be virtually no square inch that isn't covered by multiple cameras; almost like the PRC.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I think we are heading closer to technological unemployment becoming more of a thing, as technology replacing humans slowly works its way up the food chain.
These problems stem much more from fiscal policy than technology. Government has been fudging inflation numbers for 45 years according to shadowstats.com and the impact of COVID policy started under Trump and accelerated under Biden is still reverberating through everything.
I hope crypto and other technologies give us an escape route.