PART 2: The History channel didn’t send a copy of this new program, which began yesterday, for preview. (You can catch up on Part 1 at 7 p.m. ET.) Nevertheless, I’m hoping it’s more conjectural and hypothetical than a fact-based documentary. Otherwise, I’ve bought January plane tickets for nothing. And I’ve just had a revelation of my own: If this special is, we hope, theorizing about the future, isn’t the History Channel the last place it should be televised?