Man the 60s were really a time of laissez-faire nuclear projects huh. I mean I'll be the first to say the pendulum has swung too far the other way but boy were they ever enthusiastic.
In the 1890's it was "electricity." In the 1920's it was "radio." In the 1940's it was "radar." In the 1950's it was "atomic" everything. In the 1960's it as "space" this and "space" that. In the 1970's it was "jet." In the 1990's it was "cyber." Today, it's "blockchain" and "AI."
Some of it works. Most of it is snake oil. But people keep buying based on trendy keywords. People are just built that way.
Blockchains aren't.