Mr. Bing Gordon (Electronic Arts) talk at Digital Life

I had the opportunity to watch Mr. Bing Gordon, president of Electronic Arts, speak at the Digital Life show at the Javits in NYC last week.

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I _think_ the full video of his talk is available here:
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2006/10/14/150587.aspx

I cant tell tho because the video feeds are disabled here at work.

Anyway, Mr. Gordon knew that his audience was going to be packed with about 2000 high schoolers who are interested in digital media, and his talk focussed on areas that they can concentrate on to find interesting careers.  His message was that Movies, TV, Books and other media arent being replaced so much by games and net communities but integrating together and forming new bonds that make for compelling content.  I wrote to Mr. Gordon to ask him some follow up questions and he was nice enough to provide his lecture notes, and they can be found here:

http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten/BingGordon.ppt

He concludes:  The chances of you making a living playing video games is VERY small.  Obviously players like Thresh and Fatal1ty are the exception.  The opportunity to make a living by making games has never been greater in his opinion tho. 

Give his slides a look, there is some neat info in there that might give you some ideas for avenues you might like to explore.