Abstract
Up until the middle of the 20th Century, advances in fundamental physics often led directly to technological innovations. However, since the construction of the Standard Model in the 1960s, it appears we have an essentially complete description of the fundamental constituents of the universe on ``human'' scales -- that is, larger than nucleons and smaller than galaxies. Discoveries of new fundamental interactions and particles beyond the Standard Model will illuminate the fundamental properties of the physical word, but cannot be expected to drive technological progress. Consequently, the long-standing assumption that advances in physics have practical implications may finally have reached its limit.
Richard Easther