It also freed up the creation of new industries with millions of jobs that could not exist before, and powered the advancement of new technologies – including far superior glue that does NOT use horses.

Every technological advance has replaced existing jobs. However, historically, those advances have created something like 60% more jobs than was eliminated. I've read quite a bit on jobs created by technologies people thought were going to replace humans. In fact, I just heard a report on CBS this morning about this very statistic, focusing specifically on AI.

We humans are really good at being scared of endings. We're not so good at invisioining new beginnings.