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Technology and jobsINNOVATION, the elixir of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution artisan weavers were swept aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has displaced many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.创新，进步的灵药，一直花费的人他们的工作。在工业革命工匠织工是由机械织机扫地出门。在过去的30年，数字革命已经取代许多支撑20世纪的中产阶级的生活中间技术工作。打字员，票务代理，银行出纳员和许多生产线的工作已经免除，就像是织工。For those, including this newspaper, who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such churn is a natural part of rising prosperity. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more productive society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was employed on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not consigned to joblessness, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has shrunk, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.对于这些，包括本报在内，谁相信，技术进步已经使世界变得更美好，这样的流失是日益繁荣的一个自然组成部分。虽然创新杀死一些工作，它会创建新的，更好的，作为一个更富有成效的社会变得更加丰富和富有的居民需求更多的商品和服务。一百年前，三分之一的美国工人被雇用的一个农场。今天，他们的不到2％产生远更多的食物。从土地上解放出来的数以百万计没有委托失业，却发现更好的高薪工作，随着经济的增长更复杂。今天书记池缩水，但也有越来越计算机程序员和网页设计师。Remember Ironbridge记住铁桥Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its benefits (see?article). Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technology’s impact will feel like a tornado, hitting the rich world first, but eventually sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.乐观情绪仍然是正确的出发点，但对于技术工人的脱臼影