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The author describes, from a personnal perspective, the developments in unified gauge models over the past twenty years. He then lists seven major unsolved problems in theoretical high energy physics, describes the ideas central to unification of the electroweak and strong nuclear forces and briefly examines current questions related to the unification of the nuclear forces with gravity and the nature of charge.
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