What if Benjamin Franklin hadn't been interested in electricity?

While Benjamin Franklin is most credited for being one of the founding fathers of the United States, he was, also, a very brilliant amateur scientist, perhaps one of the greatest of all time. It was Benjamin Franklin who finally proved that lightning -- which had been thought to be a manifestation of God, and divine will, for the most part -- was actually directly related to the electromagnetic phenomena that had already been studied by scientists for many centuries. It was Benjamin Franklin who invented the lightning rod, the first important, practical electrical invention. And, Benjamin Franklin developed the concept of electrical charges, related to the flow of electricity. So, what if old Ben Franklin had never been interested in electricity, at all? How would this have affected the progress of science, and technology, in general?