Gabriele Gobbo

In 1988, Gabriele Gobbo's father walked into their house in a mountain village in the Italian Alps carrying an Olivetti PC1 computer. The village had around 1,200 people. His father hated typewriters. Nobody knew what a personal computer was for, including the man who bought it. Gobbo was twelve, spent most of his time running through forests, and watched his friends receive bikes and skis for gifts. He got an electronic calculator. That moment changed everything.

He has spent the thirty years since at the intersection of digital culture, media, and education. He is the creator of Digitalosophy and the author of seven books. His work includes the concepts of Digital Sleepwalkers, the argument that technical fluency without critical awareness produces a generation that uses technology without understanding it, and Social Zombing, a term he co-created with Max Guadagnoli to describe coordinated digital attacks on personal reputation. He developed Strategic Metaprompting and the 3C Protocol as a method for directing generative AI without delegating the thinking.

His writing appears in Agenda Digitale, one of Italy's leading publications on digital culture and policy. He has presented his work at the Italian Parliament, collaborated with the Italian State Police on national digital awareness campaigns, and testified at the Ministry of Education on cyberbullying. In 2023 he received the Divulgatore d'Oro recognition at the MCC Digital Award.

He is a guest lecturer in Cyber-Humanities at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele in Milan, directs the PioneerAIO research lab, and hosts FvgTech, a weekly television program on digital culture. He is Vice President of the Digital Security Festival. He founded Italiamac in 1996, Italy's largest Apple community.

He lives in Northern Italy, not far from Venice.