James Williams has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica.
Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
Summary
Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this "attention economy", we need to recognize the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control.
Drawing on insights ranging from Diogenes to contemporary tech leaders, Williams' thoughtful and impassioned analysis is sure to provoke discussion and debate. Williams is the inaugural winner of the nine dots prize, a new prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues.
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A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica
Summary
This work by James Williams is one of very few autobiographical texts by Caribbean slaves or former slaves. It became one of the most powerful abolitionist tools for ending the system of apprenticeship which had replaced slavery. Williams argues that apprenticeship worsened the conditions of Jamaican ex-slaves as former owners used the legal system against them.
Public Domain (P)2018 Museum Audiobooks