QCD, unifications, and the road to Asymptopia

The Road to Asymptopia--that energy beyond which no important new phenomena which are not predictable occur--is surveyed. The road leads from classical physics, to modern asymptotic theories, to the unifications, as shown. The conclusion that the world is a hierarchy of nested gauge groups is upset by the introduction of enormous numbers of Higgs', and is therefore premature. The Great Desert, with possible oases, is mapped out. It is advised to keep building next step accelerators as mini deserts followed by important oases are likely to be discovered all the way to the Planck length