Cern-th/96-355 Summary and Outlook

A little over a year ago I gave the summary talk at SUSY-95 in Paris. It was quite a dreadful experience. I came to the Conference with nothing in my hands, sat through all the talks but one, preparing my transparencies at night, skipping all social events. Very tired, I ended trying to summarize every talk, even the one which, not only I had missed, but also, as I learned later, had been cancelled.. . This is why, this time, I decided for a compromise, taking advantage of the fact that I was also asked to provide an outlook. I came with a number of prepared transparencies, yet sat through all plenary talks so that I could add something " on-line ". The result is for you to judge: probably, the outlook side of the story somewhat overshadows the summary side: I apologize in advance for having skipped over many important new results presented at the Conference, in particular over those on new detectors[1] and on future accelerators[2], subjects which are far from my own expertise. Fortunately, you will find all the missing stuff in the preceding 27 plenary talks! We are approaching the end of the century and we may ask ourselves: What can we learn from this century's experience in our field? It looks to me that a combination of • new, solid experimental facts, • sound, inspired theoretical thinking, have paved the way to progress over and over again: • The finite, constant speed of light led to Special Relativity via the equivalence of different Lorentz frames.