Robots will do everything, even write code! They're called compilers. Programmers still have jobs. There was a time (ca. 2008) where oil price rises were pred

Robots will do everything, even write code! They're called compilers. Programmers still have jobs. There was a time (ca. 2008) where oil price rises were predicted to continue to $500/bbl or more by, er, well now. Peak oil. We've been at/around 85 million barrels per day for about ten years. It seems to be more of a plateau, not exponential decline. However, prices are going up and so is environmental harm in getting the stuff, and those trends show no sign of slowing. We still have to get off the shit. We just have more time than the doomsayers (always a minority even in "peak oil"-aware circles) thought. Whether we have 10 or 150 years before an oil-powered economy becomes unsustainable, it's not good for the planet to be belching all that carbon into the atmosphere.