INTERVIEW The Sky Is the Limit I EEE Technology and Society Magazine Associate Editor Alexander Hayes interviewed Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie on January 21, 2013. The complete Google Hangout interview is available for viewing on YouTube at http://goo.gl/YFFbxJ. Alexander Hayes: I'm meeting today with Cecilia Abadie. Cecilia can you tell us about where you are from and a brief introduction as to where you are located. Cecilia Abadie: I'm originally from uruguay in South America and I'm now living here in California near San Diego. AH: Cecilia... you identify as a Glass Explorer. How did you get involved with this Google project? Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MTS.2014.2319936 Date of publication: 4 June 2014 IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE | SuMMEr 2014 CA: I was attending Google IO in July 2012, the developers conference that Google puts together every year. And they announced you could register for the sky diving thing... they announced you could register to buy Google #glass for $1500 and at that time nobody has seen them other than on a few people at Google and I registered... definitely, I was like rushing to get there... AH: So...my second question is do you consider Google Glass to be a wearable technology?...and in what way does it differ from say a smart phone? CA: The difference is that historically we always try, that is humanity, we try to build tools and then we try to integrate those tools as close as we can because they extend us and we did this with watches like the big clock in town then everybody having the big clock in every house and then we wanted it in every pocket and then we had it. on our wrist...so that's the tendency | 19http://www.goo.gl/YFFbxJ