John McCarthy has been Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 1962. His research is mainly in artificial intelligence. Long ago he originated the Lisp programming language and the initial research on general purpose time-sharing computer systems. More can be found in his Web page John McCarthy's home page . As a public service, he has created a Web page on the sustainability of material progress .
Material progress is indeed sustainable.
Here's a standard curriculum vita . Ideally one would put all the information that one considers public about oneself on a page like this. When asked to fill out a form, one would simply put down the URL in place of any information that is on the page and tell the recipient of the form to just look it up. One step beyond that is that any program needing this public information would just take it from the somewhat standardized web page. More precisely, here's a proposed new civil right.