原文如下：
Innovation, the elixir (靈丹妙藥) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has 37 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.
For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___40___ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered 41 , but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.
Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its ___43___. 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 44 will feel like a tornado (旋風), hitting the rich world first, but 45 sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.
參考譯文：
發明創新被視為進步的靈丹妙藥，卻使很多人失去了自己的工作。在工業革命中，機器式織布機代替了手工織布工人。在過去的30年時間裡，數字革命取代了許多需要中等技術水平的工作。這些工作在上個世紀曾經支撐中產階級的生活，如打字員、車票代售點、銀行出納員和許多流水線工作就像當時的手工織布工人一樣被取代了。
對於那些認為科技進步讓這個世界變得更加美好的人來說，這種破壞性(指技術進步造成個別技術含量不高的崗位的失業)是逐漸繁榮的過程中所必經的階段。儘管科技創新扼殺了一部分工作，它創造了新的更好的工作。因為當一個生產力更高的社會變得更富有時，富裕起來的人們也就需要更多的產品和服務。100多年前，有三分之一的美國工人在農場工作。而現在只有不到之前2%的人卻生產出比以前多得多的糧食。數以百萬計的工人離開農場後不但沒有沒有失業，相反地，當經濟發展更為多樣化的時候，他們也找到了薪水更高的'工作。現在，當祕書的人少了，但是當電腦程式設計師和網頁設計師的人卻多了。
樂觀主義者的出發點是正確的，但是對於工人來說，技術對工作崗位所帶來的混亂影響遠比技術所帶來的好處更為明顯。即使出現了新的工作和更棒的產品，短期內收入差距會變大，這將造成社會混亂甚至可能影響政治穩定。技術的衝擊猶如一場龍捲風，首先影響發達國家，但是終究也會席捲那些不發達的國家，沒有哪個政府可以做好全面的準備。
