Zorthex — Public Attention Diffusion Lag

Open Research Framework · Est. MMXXVI

How long before the world
starts paying
attention?

Measuring the delay between reality and public awareness. Three independent sources. Open method. Replicable data.

Enter a name, a technology, a political phenomenon, a product

Or start with one of these:

Public attention doesn't follow the science.
It follows its own clock.

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Know when to act

Knowing where a technology, a political phenomenon, or any product sits in its attention cycle — too early, on time, or already fading — changes everything. When to launch. When to publish. When to invest. When to wait.

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Three independent sources

Google Trends measures search attention. Wikipedia pageviews measure informational interest. Reddit measures community depth. Three clocks. Same direction — or not.

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Open method

Every metric is defined. Every threshold is explicit. The pipeline is replicable. If you run the same analysis and get different results — that's a contribution, not a problem.

Zorthex maps that clock. For any phenomenon — biotech, finance, space, machine intelligence, politics, marketing. The question is always the same: where are we in the cycle?

Querying three independent sources...

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Months of lag (L)

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Peak attention score

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Months above threshold

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Current score · Aug 2026

L — Diffusion LagMonths from first public appearance to first major attention peak (Google Trends ≥25). The core Zorthex metric.

Peak AttentionHighest Google Trends score ever recorded for this term (0–100). 100 = maximum relative search volume globally.

Months Above ThresholdConsecutive months with score ≥25/100. 12+ consecutive months = structural consolidation confirmed.

Current ScoreEstimated Google Trends score, August 2026. Below 25 = attention has receded. Above 25 = still in active public awareness.

Public attention over time — Google Trends (0–100)

Threshold: 25 · 12 consecutive months = structural consolidation

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Signal Intelligence — What's happening now

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Google Trends

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Wikipedia Pageviews

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Reddit Community

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Interpretation

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What to monitor next

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© 2026 Zorthex™ — Renato Santi · Zorthex framework v2.0 · CC-BY-NC 4.0 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20589503 · ORCID 0009-0000-9936-1110 · GitHub —

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