Dan Burstein, Secrets of 24

We speak with the co-editor of Secrets of 24, Dan Burstein

About the Book

Secrets of 24 is a thought-provoking guide to the political, moral, and philosophical issues underlying the hit television series, drawing on fascinating ideas and arguments from leading political figures, cultural commentators, celebrities, and experts in fields ranging from technology to theology.

About the Editor

Dan Burstein, Editor, launched Squibnocket Partners LLC as an innovative content development company in 2003 with his business partner, Arne J. de Keijzer. The next year, they published Secrets of the Code, which went on to spend more than six months on the New York Times best-seller list and to become a global blockbuster, appearing in more than thirty languages and in multiple editions all over the world. Secrets of 24 is the fifth title in the Secrets series. Altogether, there are over 4 million books in print in the Secrets series worldwide. Three Squibnocket titles—Secrets of the Code, Secrets of Angels & Demons, and Secrets of Mary Magdalene—have been turned into documentary films.

Maintaining an active full-time career as a venture capitalist (his day job), in addition to his involvement with the Secrets series, Burstein is founder and managing partner of Millennium Technology Ventures, a New Yorkbased venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies. He has served on the boards of more than a dozen early-stage technology companies and is currently a director of Applied Minds, a leading-edge research lab, and Global Options, a publicly traded international risk management company. From 1988 to 2000, he was senior advisor at The Blackstone Group, one of Wall Streets leading private merchant banks. He is also a prominent corporate strategy consultant and has served as an advisor to CEOs, senior management teams, and global corporations, including Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Boardroom Inc., and Sun Microsystems.

Burstein is also an award-winning journalist and author of numerous books on global economics and technology. His most recent technology-related book is BLOG! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture, cowritten with David Kline, and widely considered the most definitive book about the rise of the blogosphere. Bursteins 1988 book Yen!, about the rise of Japanese financial power, was an international best-seller in more than twenty countries. In 1995, his book Road Warriors was one of the first to analyze the impact of the Internet and digital technology on business and society. His 1998 book Big Dragon (written with Arne J. de Keijzer), outlined a long-term view of Chinas role in the twenty-first century that has, so far, turned out to be prescient.

Working as a freelance journalist in the 1980s, Burstein published more than a thousand articles in over two hundred publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Paris Match, le Nouvel Observateur, LExpansion, and many others in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Burstein has appeared on numerous TV documentaries and news specials, ranging from the programs broadcast on the History Channel, MSNBC, and CNN, and to Charlie Rose and Oprah!

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