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It's to do with pop culture at large. Psionics or psychics appeared not as a reference to the past, like magic and wizards do, but are often attached to the future. There's a regular theme of psychics being "the next step in human evolution", and lots of sci-fi uses them instead of wizards for this reason.
Basically, magic is old, psionics is new. They're the difference between a bow and arrow and a gun (not in terms of tech development, before some autist gets confused, but in cultural associations with time periods), or a horse and a car, or a book and a computer.
