Controversial BLOB time: Has this "everyone" given their consent for this? Have we considered that maybe, just maybe, not everyone wants to be like our egotistical, always distracted, selves? I just imagine a family in Cambodia harvesting their rice the way their ancestors did after having hundreds of years to perfect the art only to have the son too busy leveling up in some stupid game updating a status informing me of some unimportant fact about some pop singer to care to pass on the tradition. The internet is nice, but not necessary. I believe that it is rude to assume others want what we have. Until an international vote is held, I don't believe this should go into effect.
The internet is allowing people to connect from across the world, developing an empathy that didn't exist even 15 years ago. The internet is allowing people to educate themselves on better and more efficient ways to perform tasks... like perhaps harvesting rice. An international vote? Are you serious? Many of the places that this would be the beneficial to are places that lack the infrastructure to partake in such an unrealistic thing as a international "vote." Can you imagine the scope of such a thing, how hard it would be to administer? That is unless it were an online vote.... oh, wait.egotistical, always distracted, selves?
speak for yourself. There are plenty of people that have a connection to the internet and are able to not be egotistical or distracted. These are personal issues. Even without an Internet, the people you reference would likely be egotistical and distracted, just by other means.