You are also discounting serendipitous advances that can happen due to the techniques and technology developed to find the Higgs boson.

Here is one example: using the mathematical algorithms designed for the detectors for ATLAS and using it to recover the recordings stored on old wax cylinders. [1]

[1] "LHC physicists preserve Native American voices" [ https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/june-2015/lhc-physi... ]