Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “World After Capital” is an evolving digital book project that looks at a set of megatrend shifts as the world moves between economic paradigms from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age. 

In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss: 

• Why attention is at the center of the new Knowledge Age
• Why markets can’t price crucial needs such as pandemic preparedness
• Why the new era will be defined by three categories of freedoms: economic freedom, information freedom and psychological freedom
• Why universal basic income has an important role to play in economic freedom
• How UBI could avoid political capture 
• Why technology is inherently deflationary 
• Why real estate, education and health care should be much cheaper than they are
• Why community currencies could be a key innovation from the current crisis