@bonifartius
>but they all regard computer science as something lowly.
I think that's mainly because it's so abstract from what they're used to that they can even fathom what it is. I'm still trying to make a pedagogical model that most can understand but it's hard to not go into the details, so far my best example is to show do an adder with logic gates then point out how big is a 8 bit adder relay and I ask if they can try to imagine what you can do with billions and billions of transisors instead of around 150 relays.

Then I think another reason is that all computers sold are under the feudal commercial model of microsoft/apple and that they suppressed proper third party market to be able to have something else than the current sandbox.