Hinternet Essay Prize Contest

A Conversation with Carlyn Zwarenstein

Hinternet Editorial Board and Carlyn Zwarenstein

Dec 09, 2025

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Carlyn Zwarenstein is the winner of the 2025 Hinternet Essay Prize Contest, on the theme “How might new and emerging technologies be mobilized to secure perpetual peace?” You can read her essay here.…

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Carlyn Zwarenstein

Carlyn Zwarenstein is a Toronto writer & science journalist. Her work has been described as compelling, sensuous, measured, rage-inducing, radical, and gorgeous. Carlyn’s most recent book is On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance.