Sure, we now use schematic capture instead of a pencil and vellum, and word processors rather than scrawled notes, but almost all of these electronic documents get reincarnated in paper form. Production wants paper drawings for the assemblers. Test needs test procedures and schematics on paper. Let's face it - even engineering wants the schematics on paper. It's a lot easier to work with a paper schematic that you can scribble and make notes on then to call up the drawing on a screen somewhere.
Electronic documents suffer from another flaw.
That's the tack we've taken. The new reality of a drawing control system must recognize that while masters are inevitably in some computer format, working copies are almost always on paper. To deal with the realities of standard office equipment I believe all schematics and other documents should, if at all possible, be formatted for 8.5 X 11 paper. The days of D size schematics are long gone. We thankfully got past linen, and will hopefully obsolete huge rolls of vellum as well.