Toronto-based New Paradigm, which is spending $4 million to study the global "Net Generation," reported that 77% of the world's online 16- to-29-year-olds would rather live without television than
without the Internet.
Of 12 countries surveyed, Chinese youth who are online proved the most resistant to giving up the connectivity, with 87% choosing the Internet over TV. In the
U.S., the figure was the same as the worldwide average--77%.
New Paradigm, which is headed by "Wikinomics" and "Growing Up Digital" author Don Tapscott, surveyed 7,600 young people in the U.S.,
China, Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Japan and India.