Transhumanism As An Obstacle to Humanism

I do not think it is possible to strip the discovery of new knowledge from the cultural and political context of which emerges, and I do not think one can foist technological solutions onto social challenges. Brain implants and other technologies can never replace healthy food and water and air, literacy and education, physical activity, artistic and musical and other creative endeavors, friendship and love, community, and the cultivation of self-awareness, critical thinking, and compassion.

Yet what if we build technologies that encourage and build upon these known ingredients to making the best human beings? Could we learn new knowledge that helps us master our Stone Age emotions so that we can wield our godlike technologies with compassion and wisdom?  Could new computational and neurorestoration tools help us create a Hari Seldon like psychohistory and navigate the conundrum that Reinhold Niebuhr described in Moral Man in Immoral Society?  

How can we make sure that a transhumanist striving for a Super-Compassionate Super-Intelligence does not undermine a wiser humanist goal of simply relieving children and adults suffering from neurological disease and injury? Could the transhumanist speculations be a kind of energizing lodestar that is to iBCI development what recreating the mammoth is to Colossus, namely an aspiration that exerts a pull with a pragmatic appreciate that the real benefits to society and wellbeing arise on the journey towards it?