Cosmovisions, utopias and polemics about the Club of Rome and the Latin American world model

Abstract

This article is to consider science and technology as knowledge and as practical as cultural constructions, as expressions of different theoretical perspectives and changing social meanings. These different conceptions of science-technology-society relationship will highlight the dynamic interaction between social, political and economic actors who, while confronting values, interests and strategies to achieve a particular purpose. Every historical and cultural context may submit divergent political and social values. Science pursues certain aims and objectives, is implemented by various actors and driven by competing interests. Inserted in the dynamics of social relations is linked to ethics and practices. While it may be considered that science and technology are the universal field of knowledge is determined by cultural, political and institutional circumstances of each context. Will these determinations that will recognize the ideological evidence. The work of Amílcar Herrera, Oscar Varsavsky and Jorge Sabato will be analyzed against the proposal of the Club of Rome and the report known as "Limits to Growth (1972)". While referring to the arguments and conclusions of these documents will be made, the emphasis will be on studies thinkers called Latin American thought in science and technology developed in response to the thesis and key findings of the report.