Disgraced and bankrupt in the modern era, Carl Orlando awakens to find himself transported back to the industrial scarcity of the 1980s. Stranded in a gritty manufacturing town with empty pockets, Carl discovers that his modern smartphone traveled with him, permanently powered and packed with future technological schematics, stock histories, and market algorithms.
Leveraging four decades of technological foresight in an era of manual labor, Carl starts by revolutionizing television repair and domestic electronics. Crushing corrupt state factory bosses and monopolistic speculators with superior manufacturing techniques, Carl constructs a sprawling industrial conglomerate, winning true romance while cementing his legacy as a titan of industry.
