information aesthetics.
a clock in New York city that displays the current level of national debt in the US. the clock recently past 10 trillion dollar & so the display ran out of numbers. the dollar sign now has been repurposed to represent the 10 trillions while a new display is being built.
according to Associated Press, the clock was put up in 1989 when the U.S. government's debt was a mere $2.7 trillion, & was even turned off during the 1990s when the debt decreased (as it was unable to properly display a sinking number).
[links: wikipedia.org & brillig.com|via cnn.com & gizmodo.com & youtube.com]
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The way things are going, they better build a clock with a lot more digit space...
this is really bad news. im only 14 and i have to do a speech on it for debate class. it's pretty sad how our country could have gotten like this
I am 15 and this country is so much in debt that i don't even know what to think anymore maybe obama will help but i doubt it. I wish Bush wouldn't have done all this we will probably never get out of debt.
It's not just financial policy that needs to be changed in this country, its the paradigm. If our minds change, the country can change... I just hope it's not too late...
BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This National Debt Clock never runs out of digits!
FYI: The US National Debt increased every single year even in the 1990s.