[ClearCase_guy]

When Mao did it, he killed 60 million. An EMP would probably kill a similar, or higher, number.

I'd kind of like to skip that part. Keep the decent technology functioning, just lose the fascist economic, political, and social structure which has been holding us back for the past century or so.

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

When Mao did it, he killed 60 million. An EMP would probably kill a similar, or higher, number. I'd kind of like to skip that part. Keep the decent technology functioning, just lose the fascist economic, political, and social structure which has been holding us back for the past century or so.

Indeed.

However, there is no scenario I can imagine whereby we get to ditch the corruption-polluted bathwater of statism, but get to keep the technology baby.

I see both going, or even, God forbid, losing the tech and keeping the abominations. Vlad The Impaler didn't need high-speed communications or internal combustion to "Win The Future" of the mid 15th century.