# asian century (claimed-future)

*Ordinarily means:* the idea that a coming century will be dominated by Asia, on the pattern of 'the American century'

A story giving a coming period to one collective self, as the time in which its reach will set most walls on others.

- Computed level: L19 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [story](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-story.narrative), [narrative](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrative.self-story), [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [come](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-come.arrive), [period](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-period.temporal), [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [reach](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-reach.action), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities), [power](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over), [future](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-future.temporal)

**Through:** A trajectory is read forward and named: a whole future period is given to one group, so its current acts read as taking up a place already set for it, and others' acts read as making room or refusing it.

**Novel properties:**
- a future period owned in advance
- a trajectory turned into a name
- others' future walls assigned to one setter

## Examples
- Henry Luce's 1941 essay in Life magazine, 'The American Century', argued that the United States should take the leading role in world affairs. *(history)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian-century.claimed-future.json*  
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