James Wilson Williams

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

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]

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  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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  2. "Inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize winner chosen from more than 700 worldwide entries". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 November 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  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.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  4. "The liberation of attention from digital distraction: The Princeton Pre-read" . Retrieved 26 July 2020.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)