The attention economy as a financial asset

The thesis puts forward a five-part proposition: (i) the "vital energy" mentioned in the source text is formally isomorphic to the economic quantity of human attention, a scarce, allocable, measurable resource, as theorized by Herbert Simon (1971) and Michael Goldhaber (1997); (ii) this resource is captured by large corporations through a chain of signaling (Spence,…

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ByOleg Turceac

Copper-to-optics transition, commoditization of AI interconnects, quantitative analysis of Corning, Coherent, Lumentum drivers

www.steelldy-indices.com This study analyzes the evolution of the fiber optics industry in the context of the explosion of data centers for artificial intelligence, covering the period 2026-2031. The central thesis we defend is as follows: the transition from copper to optics in data center infrastructure is an irreversible structural trend, based on fundamental physical constraints…

07/07/20260Comments

ByOleg Turceac

Energy lockdown risk dynamics post US-Iran conflict

Multi-engine analysis suggests that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, leading to a supply shock of 20 Mb/d (20% of world consumption), has established a regime of "structural energy constraint." This regime is characterized by a high conditional probability of activating restrictive measures on mobility ("energy lockdown"), estimated at 81.3% for 03/31/26, according to…

04/01/20260Comments

ByOleg Turceac