How the Modern World Works: An Illustrated Guide to the Technology and Systems Behind Everyday Life - Softcover

THOMPSON, B.P.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798173926753

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

How the Modern World Works is the flagship introduction to a series about the machines, networks, technologies, and engineered systems that quietly shape everyday life.

From electricity, batteries, Wi-Fi, satellites, computers, and smartphones to artificial intelligence, digital payments, manufacturing, transportation, automation, and modern infrastructure, this book explains how the world around us works beneath the surface.

Rather than treating technology as a collection of mysterious black boxes, B.P. Thompson follows four recurring flows—energy, information, material, and control—to show how complex systems connect, interact, and depend on one another.

Readers will discover how electricity reaches a home, how wireless signals carry data, how computers process information, how sensors interpret the physical world, how digital transactions move through financial networks, how factories turn designs into products, and how transportation systems coordinate motion across cities and continents.

Designed for curious readers, students, technology enthusiasts, and anyone who has ever asked “How does that actually work?”, this book provides the big-picture foundation for understanding the modern technological world.

Start here, follow the connections, and discover the systems that keep modern life moving.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798173926753
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 511