Media counterpoint

On opposite sides of the entrance to my library I have two media experiences for students to "try out."
On the right, I have a Playaway VIEW with a self-contained multimedia presentation about American History.

And on the opposite side I have a record player with a selection of instructional media from the 1940s though the 1970s; the favorite being a 78 rpm series entitled Typing to Music (choose among selections for 12 to 50 words per minute!)

I think the counterpoint of breaking-technologies-for-their-times not only illustrates the obvious evolution of technology, but encourages us to be skeptical about the pedagogy that technology  aspires to promote as, well, sound.