Computation MMXII

2012
Not planning on using OpenCL for your projects going forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-bkNEaJJ4

Seriously, if you aren't learning OpenCL, you're going to be obsolete if you're a low-level C/C++ programmer, game programmer, AI programmer, etc.

>>7
No reason to be so pessimistic. You're thinking of nVidia. AMD has been open sourcing their stuff since around 2008. There are open source drivers in the Linux kernel sources contributed by AMD for current Fusion platforms already.