This posits the role of computing in contemporary philosophy as on par with the role language played in the linguistic turn of twentieth century western philosophy. Moor's claim echoes similar declarations made in other disciplines, particularly economics. A knowledge-based economy is distinct from one based in physical and financial capital. Economist Peter Drucker emphasizes this distinction.
Formal knowledge is seen as both the key personal and the key economic resource today.
They can be obtained, and obtained easily, provided there is knowledge. And knowledge in this sense means knowledge as a utility, knowledge as the means to obtain social and economic results. Some arguments for the claim that knowledge has become the primary economic driver are based on analyses of the way business is being done today. Other arguments posit changes in the nature or role of knowledge itself. Drucker, for instance, views commutative knowledge as having reached the point where knowledge is now being applied to knowledge .