The title is a bit over-the-top. Nothing is as sexy as building rockets. Nothing else has to be, as you rightly pointed out as the end of the article, there are many ways of contributing to the causes you care about.

Data privacy, security, and governance are going to be some of the big challenges both for organisations and individuals in the time to come. Keeping people's data safe, not just from a cybersecurity point of view, but also from a governance point of view sounds really cool too. It won't probably get compared to rocket science, but that's okay.