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by tzs 4464 days ago
It would be neat to have some kind of public display that shows two scrolling lists. One is a real time list of births in the US. The other, a real time list of US deaths.

The birth and death rates are low enough that most of the time both lists would be changing slow enough that you could easily keep up reading them, but high enough that you could see movement and see that the birth list is growing faster.

The death list would probably be the most interesting, as it would be less steady. You'd occasionally see blocks of deaths all in the same location as accidents and disasters happen.

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That would require a live feed of births and deaths, which I don't think exists. The site is probably based on projections from census data.
Minority Report has live feed of future non-natural deaths.