I don’t want it to be real. My inner thoughts are fucked up, and I’d probably be imprisoned for those thoughts. I don’t act on them, but boy do they invade my brain.

Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic.

Can’t wait to have my thoughts hacked. “Hey guys! I’ve just decided super-techno-fascism is a fantastic system and I’m so glad to be living under it. Cyber-Leader is great!”

You really think these companies are inventing this stuff for your benefit? They will read your mind and force ads into your head so they can profit. It’s all about their profits.

I have a brain computer interface. It’s called fingers. I can use my brain powers to communicate and even move moderately sized things with them.

Would it be telepathy though?

Asimov wrote a short story about exactly that: Liar

You don’t need to be assimilated into technology to achieve telepathy.

No, that’s how you end up with the Borg.