Dan Visel graduated from Harvard and has worked as a book designer and editor in the travel business and publishing world. Since 2005, he's been part of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a Brooklyn-based think tank focusing on the changing nature of the book as it moved from the printed page to the networked screen; in addition to managing the Institute's software development projects, he wrote and spoke extensively about the changing nature of the book and its relation to technology. He's a contributing editor at Triple Canopy, an online magazine that curates and facilitates new media projects, and is presently working for Unfold, a start-up mapping political discourse.