PSA: There is no circumstance under which a word is pluralized by use of an apostrophe.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out the the British heralds still use scrolls. It's the kind of thing they'd do.
As far as the perceived necessity of using the most recently-developed technology and throwing anything older on the rubbish heap: Hogwash.
People still have clocks and watches with hands (hands!) when digital watches have been available for decades. They still buy wooden furniture when perfectly good plastic furniture can be bought at any Wal-Mart. They even keep live pets when little robot puppies are available. And have you ever seen a C-130? It's got actual *whispers*
propellers instead of righteously modern jet engines. There are people who still cling to antiquated languages like English instead of learning Esperanto. And, confidentially, I've heard there are even people who still study
Latin! Why are all these people refusing to see that change is the way of the world, and throwing out their analog watches, burning their wooden furniture, and signing up for Esperanto lessons?
Maybe there are other considerations than how new something is?
In many things, but especially in those things we do for entertainment, there are more factors involved than how quickly a task can be completed, or how bleeding-edge the tools used for it might be. Aesthetic issues matter. Ask any single-malt Scotch drinker to trade you a bottle of his favorite brand for a precisely-calibrated mix of ethanol and water, with his choice of synthetic flavorings (cherry, bubblegum, blue raspberry...) and you'll be lucky not to get your offering returned directly in your face. An art collector is no more likely to look kindly on your offer to swap his Frederic Edwin Church original for a poster-sized photograph of the same scene.
Why should anyone draw or paint when we have digital cameras?
Why should anyone ride a bicycle when we have cars?
Why should anyone bake cookies when every grocery store sells them?
Why should anyone drive a classic 'Vette when they could have a new Toyota?
Why should anyone climb a cliff when there's a road up the back side?
Why should anyone participate in a tea ceremony when all they need is a teabag?
Why should anyone ... well, do anything in any way but the most modern, most efficient, most high-tech way?
Neither modernity nor high technology is a virtue unto itself, and efficiency is often the antithesis of pleasure.
I'm a bit of a contradiction. My ebook reader is a Sony PRS-505, and probably will be until it stops working. It's in a cover made of processed animal skins instead of titanium or polycarbonate or something else suitably modern. The book I just finished reading (
this one) was written almost a hundred years ago. When I'm not typing on a computer, I write with a fountain pen. There's a straw broom propped up next to my Roomba. I'm listening to MP3s of Renaissance-era music performed on period instruments. I play World of Warcraft and chess; in fact, I've been known to play chess
in WoW. My cooking relies on the freezer and the microwave, but I also bake sourdough bread from scratch (or I did until my starter died). I have compact fluorescents inside my stained-glass lamps.
What it comes down to, really, is what you enjoy. I'm one of the people who likes to savor the journey, not just warp directly to the destination. Not only your mileage but your route may vary.
And now, having ranted long enough, I'm going to go read a great novel on an eReader.