Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.
I don't have a strong interest in history.
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.