Environmental Intelligence in which cameras and microphones
everywhere monitor us, purportedly to make our lives better,
is not the ``utopia'' I would like to live in.
(Fig~\ref{fig:aieihi}).
\begin{figure*}
  \figc{ei_hi.idraw,width=4in}
  \caption{
           A goal of Environmental Intelligence (EI)
           is to have an environment that monitors the user
           and ``tries to be helpful'', although it then
           opens up the question as to whether or not the
           architect of the space is serving his or her
           own needs which may be different than, or in addition
           to the needs of the occupants.
           Humanistic Intelligence (HI) encourages individuals to
           architect their own space.
           HI builds
           on the existential principle of self--determination
           and mastery over one's own destiny, rather than relying
           on the Bigs to create their vision of a better world for us.
          }
  \label{fig:aieihi}
\end{figure*}
I have presented HI as an alternate research
direction, in which the machine becomes an extension of the human
rather than an extension of the environment.
While we already have smart rooms, smart floors, smart toilets,
smart elevators, smart light switches, etc., we may how have
``smart people'' --- people equipped with devices that have
traditionally only been part of the architecture or environment.


