If emp events natural or otherwise — can just be put off for another 40 years or so a large section of the population will be off the grid.
In only 6 years or so the solar people are saying their stuff will reach grid parity everywhere without government supports. After that, its reasonable to expect that solar uptake will increase many fold from its already high increase rate.
In 10-15 years or so 4th generation portable nuclear power plants will come on-steam and pretty much break the grid up into much smaller independent pieces.
I think a lot of capabilities that are dependent on satellites currently in a couple decades will return to earth. Anyhow, seems to me, I’ve seen articles on military research to mitigate the vulnerabilities of US satellites to Chinese attack by returning some of their capabilities to earth and simultaneously making them faster and more robust. Any development here would likely be further off
You sound like a Popular Science article from 1952.