Google recently released the Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review on Youtube. It's an awesome piece of short filmmaking using collected data and media from the past year. The editing is phenomenal, props to Whirled Creative and Director Scott Chan. The narrative is really refined, watch it a few times to notice the juxtopositioning of ideas in even the most subtle sections.
What strikes me is how, no matter what part of the world we live in, our humanity is something we experience together, collectively, and in an era of new media technology, social media, and pooled information, we get a true birds eye view of our world. It can be a big as a revolution in Egypt, to an intimate moment when a deaf woman hears herself for the first time from a medical marvel, today it's possible to experience things never thought possible, and we share it together.
See the Google Zeitgeist website to enjoy specifics if you want to mine the data. It's fascinating how similar we all are.
