Authored by Liang Lang Rou (Toronto. Canada)
About UMCF
The Unified Meta-Civilization Framework™ (UMCF™)
The Unified Meta-Civilization Framework™ (UMCF™) is built from three interconnected works that trace the evolution of human perception across past, present, and future:
Redefining the Industrial Revolution — Past: the emergence of perception
Easterlin Paradox 1974–2025™ — Present: the erosion of perception
The Fourth Framework of Business Innovation™ — Future: the reconstruction of perception
Together, they form a Civilization = Business × Perception spine spanning more than ten disciplines, offering a unified perspective on how technology, perception, and value shape one another.
(Business × Technology) → Perception → Hope-Distance → Behavior → Civilization → ( Business × Technology)
This loop has shaped global history, social experience, individual identity, and the future of innovation.
These fields do not stand alone. They form a single, coherent analytical spine:
Psychology shows how perception is eroded
Behavioral economics explains why value becomes unfelt
Media ecology reveals how digital systems shape reality
Philosophy of technology shows how tools reshape existence
Happiness economics maps the distance to hope
AI research uncovers identity breakdown
Design theory exposes how business interfaces govern behavior
Together, they form the academic foundation of the Unified Meta-Civilizational Framework™ (UMCF 1.0)—a new way of understanding how civilization truly evolves.
About Author
I did not arrive at this work through a traditional academic pathway.
My thinking developed through long-term observation, independent analysis, and a sustained effort to understand how perception, technology, and civilization evolve together.
Over many years, I documented these insights in their raw form.
When later analyzed through AI-assisted research methods, the writings revealed a natural structure spanning twelve disciplines.
This allowed me to organize the ideas into a unified meta-framework, connecting psychology, media ecology, behavioral economics, philosophy of technology, design theory, and several other fields into a single civilizational system.
Although my background is unconventional, the UMCF™ originates entirely from lived experience, conceptual exploration, and independent theoretical development.
AI assisted in classification and synthesis, but the models, structures, and civilizational architecture were developed through original inquiry.