Reading into the future of an online age

For the past two months, I have been doing the unthinkable for many in this day and age - living without television.

But even as I gradually realized I was not missing much other than the comforting glow of the TV set late into the night, I only turned more to the Internet. As a result, my time spent online has now doubled.

It comes as no surprise that China's Internet community is already the world's largest and hit 384 million last year, with one in three online users younger than 19.