"Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs." "The Tech Solutions to End Global Hunger." Depending on which headline you read, you can get a very different idea of how technology is going to affect our future.

It's enough to make your head spin. Neither extreme scenario rings true based on historical evidence or my own experience in business and global philanthropy.

When spreadsheet software was introduced in 1980, pundits predicted heavy losses for the accounting sector. And, in a way, they were right: Since then, the United States has lost 400,000 accounting jobs. What they didn't predict, though, was that spreadsheets would also create customer service jobs — 600,000 of them.

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