I think this is generally worth taking an interest in, to put it mildly.
It hardly needs saying that the massive increase in speed of CPUs over the past few decades has been extremely valuable, and that further gains will be just as valuable.
But those gains will from now on mostly consist of a regular doubling in the number of cores. So to benefit from these gains, software needs to be parallelizable.
A lot of the computation-intensive parts of many applications are actually written in SQL, so they are already functional and capable of being broken down into parallel tasks by the RDBMS. So those people can relax.
But those of us writing mostly in C#, even if we're writing GUIs, we need to pay close attention to this stuff. A GUI frequently has to perform some useful operation on whatever model it presents to the user, and the user gets annoyed when they have to sit and wait for it to finish. They'll get even more annoyed in a few years time, when they look at Task Manager and see that around 3% of their fancy new 32-core machine is being utilized.
