| Abstract |
The industrial age was characterized by the accumulation of the capital and of the physical property, on the other hand, in the new age post industrial or the third wave like her Alvin Toffler names (1979) the estimable thing they are the intangible forms of power that they present in packages of information and in intellectual assets, for what the physical character of the economy diminishes, dematerialization in a hyperconnected and intelligent world. During most of the history of the humanity, the pace of the innovations was slow, however, from the Second World War the use and development of the technology has experienced an exponential growth. The companies, the organizations and the individuals who have could integrate, adapt and use these new technologies are benefiting what such tools can achieve. The technological revolution must not be in itself an end, but a way. The benefits that's bringing the technology are great and very important, but there's no denying that new problems are emerging linked to technological development, and some of them with dangers and seriously harmful consequences for the man and his environment. Informatics and the industry in general haven't spared no effort to develop rapidly, but in most cases, at the expense of environmental degradation. Already in 1970 the Pope Paul VI referred to the ecological problematic in the speech before the FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, emphasizing that the most surprising scientific progresses and the most prodigious economic growth, if they aren't accompanied by an authentic social and moral progress, turn against the man. In equal sense, the Pope Juan Paul II (1979) in his first Encyclical, (Redemptor hominis) warned that the persons seem to perceive of the natural environment only what they serve to the ends of a use and consumption. However, the Technologies of Information and Communication (ICTs) can be an ally in the fight against climate change through processes called green technologies, which are part of the concept of green economy as context of sustainable development, according to the final document of Rio + 20. This paper will detail the incidence of informatics in the different areas and will describe in general terms, each of the methods and computer products ecological. |