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“How Might Current and Emerging Technologies Best Be Mobilized to Secure Perpetual Peace?”

Hinternet Essay Prize Contest, 2025

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Dec 02, 2025
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Carlyn Zwarenstein is a writer and science journalist based in Toronto, and the author of On Opium: Pain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance (2021). She is the winner of the 2025 Hinternet Essa…

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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.
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