Teaching 3D modeling in towns without stable internet or public transportation is like giving a fish in a desert. Administrations promote digital courses as a magical solution to depopulation, but they avoid the real problem: lack of affordable housing, rural healthcare, and basic services. Population is not fixed with screens, but with rights.
The digital trap: courses without infrastructure or job future 🖥️
A Blender or ZBrush course is useless if the student cannot download the files due to a 3-megabit ADSL connection or if they must travel 40 km to the nearest health center. Digital training requires a prior ecosystem: fiber optics, regular transportation, affordable housing, and a business network that hires. Without that, the course is institutional posturing. The 3D model does not pay the rent or the electricity bill in a town with no real job future.
Next step: rendering course in a town without mobile coverage 📡
The next plan will be to teach sculpting dragons in 3D in a municipality where the ambulance takes 45 minutes. The logic is impeccable: while you wait for the doctor, you model a digital sword. Then, with the fiber promised for 2030, you upload the file to a cloud that does not load. In short, the town empties, but the renders look nice in the subsidy report. Ironies of rural development.