>in the distant future we will all understand the field to be about abstractly defining processes i.e. a series of repeatable steps to accomplish a task. That'

>in the distant future we will all understand the field to be about abstractly defining processes i.e. a series of repeatable steps to accomplish a task. That's how CS started. Long before we had anything recognizable as computers, we had the likes of Turing providing formal mathematical formulations of abstractions that would be realized later.