3 Quotes & Sayings By Andrew Rayner

Andrew Rayner is a writer, journalist and editor. His first book, The First 20 Years of the Internet, was published by Viking Penguin in 1996. He has written for The Guardian, The Independent, GQ and other publications as well as The Economist. In 2005 he became a columnist for the Financial Times’s print edition Read more

He has been a regular contributor to Prospect magazine since 2007 and is currently its deputy editor. He lives in London.

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Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from it, but they live their daily lives much as hundreds of generations of ancestors before them, without money, electricity, phones, TV or manufactured food. Andrew Rayner
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Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment. Andrew Rayner