If you are a parent or grandparent, you will almost certainly have noticed the pressure for your children to compete on a world stage. In publicly and privately funded schools, from age 5 to Masters degree level, both children, teenagers and their parents put themselves under incredible levels of stress to gain qualifications in the hope that they might secure a place in a world with a fast diminishing pool of jobs. Many take on large amounts of student debt that they will spend years paying back and even when they do eventually graduate, they are left competing for menial jobs against swathes of other overqualified candidates.

It doesn’t help that more and more of our children’s time is stolen by distractions such as gaming and low quality social media content.

There are numerous initiatives to get children studying STEM (and more recently STEAM — science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) subjects from even a primary age, but the take up is only 2% at ‘A’ level (pre-university exams taken at age 18). There is also a brain drain out of STEAM related careers into finance and law which offer significantly higher salaries.

So what is the solution?

One way to make STEM careers attractive is to make the productive professions as profitable as distributive ones. If individuals were able to help conceive, develop and launch the next generation of indispensable consumer products receiving a revenue share in return, that would be far more attractive than having to work every day for a salary.

By providing individuals and businesses with good visibility of the intellectual property landscape and the products that can be generated from it, effort can be far more efficiently focused. Individuals and businesses would be able to be inspired by state of the art solutions, establish if any ideas that they had were unique and determine their value before expending significant time and effort to develop them. At the same time, providing an affordable global route to market for best of breed hardware and software products would incentivise innovation.

Our module and 3D printed product architecture is just the first stepping stone on the road to decentralised manufacturing for a small subset of products. Over time, demand for new functionality will result in the production of many more modules and improved designs. At the same time, additive manufacturing technologies are developing all the time. Corporates and university researchers have already published papers on how we can 3D print batteries, some electronic components and even graphene based OLED displays. Whilst these processes currently require costly laboratory and industrial processes, more affordable versions are likely to emerge if we can help to demonstrate mass market demand and sales revenue potential.

Could your son or daughter be the next Steve Jobs or Jonathan Ive?

Whilst that might work for the lucky few, there would still be many who would be left out in the cold. In our opinion, the urgent priority to help these people would be to give them what they need to build their own solutions to reduce or eliminate their NEED for a job. These would provide the basics, such as food, warmth and shelter, in our increasingly automated society.

Buzz Technology is devoted to creating technology solutions for societal benefit.

These include a decentralised manufacturing system (the initial focus of our upcoming ICO) and new designs for 2nd use packaging which can be combined with 3D printed parts to build larger value adding products (such as ultra low cost aeroponic food growing and wind/solar energy generation equipment).

If you are a concerned parent or grandparent, it you would like to see a more balanced world where people are given the opportunity and support to reach their full potential, then please support our ICO by either investing or spreading the word about it.

(1) visit our web site at www.buzztechnology.co.uk to find out more and whitelist*.

(2) Join our Telegram group — https://t.me/BuzzTech — to shape the solution, work with us or hear about opportunities.

(3) we are also looking for investors at all stages — ICO, pre sale and direct. Do reach out to us by email on info@buzztechnology.co.uk to find out about current opportunities.

*For those of you who are not familiar with the term, to ‘Whitelist’ means to register in advance to participate in the ICO. We need to carry out basic KYC (know your customer) identity checking as part of the anti money laundering regulations, so once you have submitted your email on our web site, we will get back in contact with details of this process ahead of the sale so that you are ready to go when our ICO opens for investment.