Intelligence isn't always an advantage, he got that much right! Asimof got that much right! lol
But it's writers like him that inspire science to embark on new ideas. Teleportation may be a long way off as well as creating stable wormhole connecting two distant locations. But in 200 years the world will be a place we wouldn't recognize, we will think of us as cavemen living in the stone age.
At least the stone age has internet and crypto!
!BBH
!LOL