Many of these jobs that are becoming obsolete are not situated close to a university environment where a naturally occurring ecosystem would occur. Mind you, we do have distance learning. In Chalk River, in conjunction with the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, we have the Deep River Science Academy, which has gone above and beyond being a place to learn about science during the summer. They actually do the distance learning and teach it to different high school classes around the world.
What is it we can do to have these ecosystems in outlying areas as well? Are the universities willing to project their knowledge to clusters outside the beaten path of the 401 corridor?