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> There are many fundamental discoveries in computer science that are yet to be found.

That's a strange claim. It could be, but there are large evidences that we discover most of the fundamental things immediately up to the 80s, and then the other improvements are kinda really incremental, a program from 1970 is not alien today. Technology of computing progressed a lot more than CS itself, a computer of 1970 kinda is alien, and a toy.

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Your description of how things are is exactly how Thomas Kuhn describes the process of "Normal Science" in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Cracks in our understanding grow, and patchwork theories are put around those contradictions, but eventually the dam breaks and a scientific revolution reshapes the way we think about a subject.

I don't think we will sit at our computers writing code in the same way a hundred years from now. It just feels very inefficient to me, it's a good abstraction for now but better will come, new paradigms that probably look radically different. I personally would find the opposite claim rather strange :)

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