Technology Based Diffused Knowledge Acquisition & Sharing. Constraints and Possibilities (*)

The paper discusses basic possibilities and constraints in technology mediated knowledge acquisition and sharing, both for personal and community needs, levering on cognition pragmatic paradigms and knowledge representation technology. Knowledge acquisition and sharing possibilities apparently increase as computer and communication technology spread world-wide, often thanks to multimedia information infrastructures and to diffused embedded technological mediators as instruments of governance of natural, artificial and cultural ambits and of social economic development. But actual cognition processes of an agent (natural or artificial) experimenting a technology mediated “reality ” in a given context, appears to be a contingency biased by the aim of the agent. Accordingly to the work the efficacy and efficiency of specific trade-off among constraints and possibilities in technology diffused knowledge acquisition and sharing may be discovered in practice, leveraging both on human-agents experience and pro-active intelligent infrastructures, supported by advanced logic paradigms, as suggested by pragmatist philosophical conceptualization. The necessity to “ground” technology mediated “realities ” by mean of common practice and technological standards, suggests the opportunity to leverage on Government needs as well as on the media industry historical experience