James Wilson Williams

James Wilson Williams (born 1982) is an American writer and academic. He was the winner of the inaugural Nine Dots Prize, in 2017.[1][2] His first book, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy, was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press.[3] In 2019, Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber selected the book as the Princeton Pre-read, the one book all incoming students were assigned to read before beginning their studies.[4]

James Wilson Williams
Born1982 (1982)
Cape Canaveral, Florida
EducationBalliol College, Oxford

References
  1. "Oxford student and former Google employee wins inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize". The Nine Dots Prize. The Kadas Prize Foundation. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  2. "Inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize winner chosen from more than 700 worldwide entries". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  3. Williams, James (2018). Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Information Economy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108453004. Retrieved 19 November 2018.
  4. "The liberation of attention from digital distraction: The Princeton Pre-read". Retrieved 26 July 2020.


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