Now there they are, the customers who are so enthusiastic about their intelligent electronics.
Paying with a smartwatch, tablet or mobile phone: Not possible.
Who rolls sweating with the last drop of expensive diesel at the motorway gas station, gets nervous again at the checkout.
When the card machine doesn't work, obtaining cash becomes a long-forgotten challenge.
The nationwide failure of many card readers is grist to the mills of cash fans.
That's what we get for making ourselves more and more dependent on plastic cards, WiFi and data!
This argument is nonsensical and unworldly at the same time.
Technological progress also reveals shortcomings at the same pace.
Incidentally, it was no different when cash was invented, just think of counterfeit or black money.
But that shouldn't stop progress.
It must be an incentive to draw the right conclusions, to find and implement solutions to problems more quickly - and maybe also to have a few banknotes with you in reserve.