Is there any evidence that machines are actually causing significant unemployment? Articles of this type are composed of anecdotes. Machines can now do this or that, several individuals lost their jobs to machines, etc. Do we know that jobs aren't being created as fast as they are being destroyed?

The siren song of the hype machine is very tempting. But it would be comforting to know that there's some substance to the implication of this article before we start taking baseball bats to technology. There are several compelling social, economic and historical reasons to believe that people will continue creating jobs for other people, for as long as humans exist.