Meet Mauro Pompetti
Inventor. Writer. Philosopher. Storyteller of memory.
Mauro Pompetti (born August 28, 1961 in Forlì, Italy) is an Italian nuclear engineer, inventor, writer, entrepreneur and electronics and computer science teacher. Always driven by a passion for innovation and the search for useful solutions for everyday life, he has dedicated his career to projects ranging from applied technology to security and digital memory.
Education and Technical Career
Mauro Pompetti embarked soon on a career in electronics and advanced systems design. With his company, DPM Elettronica, he has developed innovative technological tools, including the DronesBench®, a unique drone test bench renowned for its precision and reliability.
His work has led him to collaborate with universities, research institutions, and companies, contributing to the development of technologies in the fields of home automation, renewable energy, electronic security, and measurement systems.
The Author and the Vision of LiveForever
In 2025, he published his first novel, Live Forever – I Custodi del Tempo (also in English as The Keepers of Time and translated into several languages), a work that intertwines fiction, philosophy, and technology.
The book is both a novel and a manifesto: it explores the human desire not to be forgotten and presents a digital platform, actually conceived and developed by the author, capable of preserving memories, connections, and personal stories forever.
Through the LiveForever.cloud project, Pompetti combines his engineering experience with his humanistic sensibility, offering a tool that bridges generations and transforms memories into an eternal legacy.
Personal mission
All his work—technical, entrepreneurial, and literary—is driven by a shared vision: to improve human life, make technology a tool for growth, and at the same time preserve the deepest essence of existence: memory, bonds, and the love that unites us.
With Live Forever – The Guardians of Time, his debut novel, Mauro weaves together science, emotion, and a futuristic vision to address a universal question: How can we preserve the bonds that give meaning to our existence?
The Man Behind the Words
Where It All Began
In an Italy racing quickly toward the future, Mauro learned early on that memory is not just recollection: it is a root. Giovanna, the woman by his side, often spoke to him about an extraordinary brother who had passed away too soon, someone she had never had the chance to know. “He was unique,” she would say, her eyes tinged with melancholy. “A genius, a force of nature.” And about a father just as remarkable, who was no longer there but continued to live in every one of her stories. These words were not mere confidences: they were a desperate attempt to keep alive the threads of a past that risked dissolving. Mauro listened and felt a visceral need grow inside him: to give a face, a voice, a tangible presence to those shadows of memory. He wanted the fantasies born from those stories to transform into real encounters, into something shared and alive. Over time, those lives he had never known began to feel like a part of him. Before Giovanna, there had been Michela, who spoke of a brilliant uncle — an architect, a man always immersed in his work, yet able, at the mere sight of her, to drop everything and take her for walks through the streets of Rome. A man who knew how to balance the rigor of the mind with the lightness of affection. A lover of technology who, however, found his balance in the oldest and simplest of gestures: “reconnecting with the earth” in the most literal sense, stopping in the middle of nature to relieve himself, far from concrete and convention. There were only a few words, instead, about his paternal grandparents, whom he had never met, and about his maternal grandfather — a boastful and crafty man, full of imagination, who always found ways to make money in times when hunger often prevailed.
Mauro had never met them, yet through those voices, he felt an insatiable desire to truly know them. But how could that be possible if they were all gone? Perhaps it was precisely from this that his deepest need was born: to build something that could make people’s traces eternal, even those who had never had the time to be known. It wasn’t enough to remember. It had to be preserved.
"Even before I knew how to write, I was already remembering." - Mauro
Moments Between Worlds
From a young age, Mauro Pompetti had faced and overcome challenges tied to his fears, his thirst for knowledge, and the great questions of existence. His experiences – made of love stories, of memory, and of legacy – often led him to ask himself an uncomfortable question: how much of us truly remains when we are no longer here? He refused to accept the idea that human existence was nothing more than a fleeting passage. He rebelled against that fate. He wanted to change things, to make a difference. He wanted to leave a mark. He wanted to be remembered forever.
The very title is born from a simple observation: stories, when shared and remembered, allow both their protagonists and those who tell them to transcend time. It is no longer just a personal journey: it has become a universal message about the power of storytelling to preserve what truly matters, not only for oneself, but for all who desire it.
"To write is to freeze a feeling before it disappears."
Loss, Legacy, and Letters
The unexpected loss of his mother transformed his relationship with writing. Standing before her grave, watching autumn leaves spiral down, he realized that memories were the only true afterlife we could touch in this world.
This profound grief became the catalyst for 'Live Forever' - not as an escape from death, but as a celebration of how love persists through memory. He began collecting old family letters, voice recordings, dream journals, and photographs, weaving them into a tapestry of remembrance that would eventually become his life's work.
What started as a deeply personal act of preservation grew into a work of art that invites others to do the same. In time, it became more than a book.
"I realized memory is the only afterlife we can touch."
Writing with Mortality in Mind
For seven years, Mauro dedicated himself to crafting 'Live Forever.' Each morning began with lighting a candle - a ritual to honor those who had passed yet lived on in his words. Each chapter was written and rewritten, polished until it gleamed with truth.
The title itself evolved from a simple observation: that stories, when shared and remembered, allow both their subjects and their tellers to transcend time. What began as a personal healing journey transformed into a universal message about the power of narrative to preserve what matters most.
LiveForever was written over seven years as a ritual of remembrance - each word a light kept burning for those we can no longer hold but still remember.
"Live Forever is not a book. It's a message in a bottle to my grandchildren's grandchildren."
