For a related but flipped perspective: imagine you were describing modern society and the ubiquity of texting. The speed and non-verbal aspects of it, coupled with some people's ability to multi-task texting in the middle of other conversation would be hard to describe to an audience in the 1950s or 1960s, but if you were going to describe it a lot of scifi descriptions of telepathy come close. Maybe we already invented "telepathy" in the future we are living in, it's just so ubiquitous and "dull" and "everyday" we underestimate how fantastic and weird it is from past perspectives?
