Don't fear the robots.

While new technologies are giving rise to a "jobs gap" – or a mismatch between the jobs people want and the ones that are available – they're also affording new opportunities for workers, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. argues in a new report.

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The rise of automation, online tools, and big data echoes industrial revolutions of the past, with occupations and businesses following a "natural evolution" as technology advances, the bank argues. While the transition can be painful, it can also be helped along by new policies seeking to better share the temporary discomfort of rapid tech-driven change.