Emerson Collective Podcast ‘Technically Optimistic’ Wants to Save Your Digital Soul

As consumers turn apathetic toward information collecting online — and Washington cracks down on foreign-owned apps like TikTok — the urgency of data privacy and protection seems increasingly unavoidable in daily life.

“Technically Optimistic,” a podcast from Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective, seeks to address that in ways that don’t make the average listener’s eyes glaze over.

“I’m trying to break this information down in a way that my mother-in-law would find interesting,” said Raffi Krikorian, host of the series which began a Season 2 rollout in April.

Krikorian is the chief technology officer at Emerson Collective, which Jobs founded to bolster education, the environment,

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