I'm currently at GDC 2010 and realising that things have changed exactly as they should have done, given what I knew 6 years ago (when I was last actively developing a game).

It is at least 10x more:

 - mobile
 - server based
 - communal
 - social
 - varied

Than it was then.

Far too much has not changed though, and it needs to. The industry still appears to be largely:

- dominated by platform owners (albeit new ones)
- driven by male nerds
- concentrating power in a few hands
- not properly rewarding the creators of content (compared to distribution channels)
- self-referential

Why this is not changing, and what else I have learned, will appear here soon. If I can find time to think it through, I'll also explain the biological analogies (which are about ecosystem evolution,  'top predator' theory and 'scavenging')

Well, I was not going to be quiet about it, was I?