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Introduction
Patrick
My guest this week is Albert Wenger, a managing partner at Union Square Ventures and the author of the book World After Capital. Albert studied Economics at Harvard and earned a Ph.D., in Information Technology from MIT. But if you'd asked me to guess before looking those up, I'd have guessed that he studied philosophy because of how widely he has thought about the world and the impact of technology. Our conversation is about how technology is changing the world from an industrial age to a knowledge age. We explore how cryptocurrencies, low-cost computing, and regulation will impact our future, and why the transition may require delicate care. I love this conversation because of my obsession with the concept of scarcity. We explore what has been scarce through time and what may be scarce in the future.