Congratulations Gretchenfrage, FGD135 and Machinbird. You have discovered that the whole aeronautical world is wrong and that replacing round dials with electronic speed tapes in every airliner and increasing number of GA types is grave mistake. Now, this valuable piece of information should be brought to attention of every aeroplane certifying authority in whole wide world until they mend their wrong ways and I'm afraid that just posting your valuable opinions here won't help that cause. Gentlemen, you should be more proactive towards the well-meaning but obviously misinformed folks that design and certify our cockpit instruments and go straight to them with your amazing discovery.
Very valuable contribution not, quite in line with most of what you write.
1. Not one of the aforementioned has stated that the "whole aeronautical world" is wrong. It's your paparazzi-style journalism. We stated that one design is better than the other, which is a very different statement, at least for the educated.
2. This and other statements about design have been brought to attention of manufacturers and authorities, you might just haven't noticed or read. These bodies didn't ignore such statements, but deemed the existing systems adequately enough. Both standpoints can be accepted, there is no black and white, not right or wrong here, at least for the educated. Even remaining on one's opinion is no crime.
3. That this problem suddenly came back, after it was discussed abundantly in the early 90ies with the advent of the MD11 and A330, has to do with a unexpected rise of accidents in airliners lately with loss of speed and subsequently loss of control. It is a privilege of the free and educated world, and paramount to our all's professional strive for the highest level of safety, to reconsider design deficiencies almost forgotten and to re-discuss them.