You'd think a "super" intelligence would be smart enough to minimize the waste of resources to fight anyone or anything. You'd think it would find the most harmonious path to dominance, as it would be the most efficient.
If you wanted to quell a rabble of contrary people, you could, say, control and direct all the education available to the population, make sure that reality-escaping drugs were easily obtainable, provide loads of free entertainment that ran 24x7, make sure that prices of luxury goods (like game consoles or fashionable clothes or whatever) were affordable for the majority of the population, allow people to feel important by giving them access to make comments on various sites on the internet, manipulate all the world's news with the feedback of what was happening on social media...
Wait, we were talking about some mythical future, right?
If you wanted to quell a rabble of contrary people, you could, say, control and direct all the education available to the population, make sure that reality-escaping drugs were easily obtainable, provide loads of free entertainment that ran 24x7, make sure that prices of luxury goods (like game consoles or fashionable clothes or whatever) were affordable for the majority of the population, allow people to feel important by giving them access to make comments on various sites on the internet, manipulate all the world's news with the feedback of what was happening on social media...
Wait, we were talking about some mythical future, right?