{"id":5845,"date":"2011-09-29T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2012-12-11T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:48:41","slug":"everything-we-want-and-everything-we-own-we-owe-to-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5845","title":{"rendered":"Everything we want and everything we own, we owe to the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 17 year old son Tom was sick for Roshashana<\/a> the Jewish New Year that we celebrated last night. I felt sorry for him and asked him if there was anything I could get him that would make him feel better. He answered “I don’t know Dad, all I want I get on my laptop”.<\/p>\n

When I was his age being sick meant book, magazines, videos and TV. Now all that comes over the internet.<\/p>\n

But then I thought that everything I could possibly get him I could get him thanks to the internet. That our home, our car, our vacation home and whatever we have we owe to the companies I built that deliver the internet to people. That my career has been all about companies that deliver the internet to everyone, including my son Tom. He gets his internet via Jazztel and Ya.com and Fon<\/a> (the two Spanish telcos that I founded and deliver internet via DSL, and Fon WiFi).<\/p>\n

So there we were, a son who anything he wanted while sick was on the internet and a father who anything he could possibly buy him was thanks to the Internet.<\/p>\n

We are a good fit Tom and I.<\/p>\n

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My 17 year old son Tom was sick for Roshashana the Jewish New Year that we celebrated last night. I felt sorry for him and asked him if there was anything I could get him that would make him feel better. He answered “I don’t know Dad, all I want I get on my laptop”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[725],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","category-paternity","tag-mv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t