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]
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.