Can you predict what might happen 250 years from now? It’s a difficult task, especially when you think about everything that’s occurred in the past 250 years. The world of 1776 is completely alien to those of us living in the 2020s. The people of 1776 were living before the widespread adoption of comforts like indoor plumbing. No one knew about fundamental scientific concepts like germ theory. The Wright Brothers weren’t even a gleam in their father’s eye.