BALD

BALD

Born Analogue. Lived Digital.

In 1949 the world ran on radios, newspapers, and black telephones fixed to the wall.

By 2026 machines are writing, thinking, navigating aircraft, guiding tractors, managing money, and sometimes even holding conversations with us.

How did it happen?

In BALD, Australian author Michael Holding takes readers on a journey through one lifetime of extraordinary technological change. From the arrival of television and the Moon landing to the birth of the internet, smartphones, satellites and artificial intelligence, this book explores how humanity quietly transformed the analogue world into a digital civilisation.

One invention at a time.

Told with dry humour, curiosity and reflection, BALD asks a simple but unsettling question:

If technology changed our world so gradually that we barely noticed it happening…

what happens next?

Because the machines are no longer just tools.

They have started talking back.