While television is primarily about our leisure time, the Internet is already transforming work, school, and play.

Use of the Internet is reducing television viewing around the world while having little impact on positive aspects of social life.

We want to establish their behavioral patterns before they have Internet technology. Then we can see what happens after they get wired. We can see how their lives and household habits change.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

The only social activity in American households that suffers significantly as a result of Internet use is time spent watching television.

For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horrible contagion in society.