Do you think that technology is encouraging telepathy?

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Regarding your second question, "have we ever evolved for the sake of convenience or social acceptance": Populations evolve over time not necessarily based on necessity or "survival of the fittest", but on who procreates the most and who with. Obviously survival can come into it, e.g., only those that survive have the chance to procreate. And I am simplifying this a bit for the sake of space. But the point is that if convenience or social acceptance related to some gene-controlled trait is resulting in greater procreation with people having this trait (e.g., one holding this trait is more likely to have more children), then yes, the population will evolve to build this trait into the gene pool. Is this happening now with any gene controlled trait? Hard to say. This process occurs over such large time scales and it's much easier to see in retrospect.

Regarding psychic abilities, and assuming for the sake of argument that such abilities were real and controlled by genetics, and further assuming that it is present in some people due to a gene mutation, then the only way the population could evolve to have more psychic ability among individuals is if psychic people happened to have more children than non-psychic people. 10,000 or 100,000 years ago, if psychic traits existed, they could have helped people avoid predation from other animals, thus resulting in a surviving population with increasingly greater psychic individuals. Today survival is more linked to the availability of food and clean water, health habits and resistance to disease, and it's not clear how psychic abilities would aid survival or the ability to reproduce there. Perhaps the avoidance of car accidents and similar health hazards? Maybe that's one way, but there's not good evidence that psychic avoidance like this is actually happening.

Regarding your very first question, I don't see how technology can encourage telepathy if the brain is not physically capable of it in the first place. If anything, the reliance on technology means less reliance on our own brain power (think of the advent of the electronic calculator and how nobody ever does math with pencil and paper anymore!)