The article talks about superpowers, which I take to mean the technology can do some general thing that could not be done before. In that case people can invent

The article talks about superpowers, which I take to mean the technology can do some general thing that could not be done before. In that case people can invent a great many specific things to do with it, and so in is likely inevitable some of them will be great successes. So the fact that when it is first invented a given individual can't think of a specific use that would be very valuable doesn't mean much.