The future of computing is heterogeneous, and therefore the future of programming involves programming heterogeneous systems.
Heterogeneous systems (those with accelerators) are sufficiently mature now to cause a swelling in demand for open, multivendor, multiarchitecture tools to replace the need for proprietary closed solutions.
“Dedicated or semi-dedicated hardware accelerators” are a must-have feature for computing. An excellent introduction to this topic is “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture” by Hennessy & Patterson.
Fortunately, solutions are emerging – and James specifically discusses the motivations and future of SYCL and oneAPI as they vie to be important open solutions, multivendor, multiarchitecture solutions for programmers seeking to use heterogeneous machines.