pay cash and be looked down upon?

I haven't seen it happen anywhere in Milwaukee, WI, and as far as I know, cash is still happily accepted everywhere, and in some cases, it's still the only form of payment (such as a parking meter lol). I myself prefer to use my debit card, cause oftentimes it's really fast, and I dont' have to worry about carrying a lot of cash on me. Plus, if my card is lost or stolen, I can report it and hopefully won't lose that money, whereas with cash, if I lost that $100 bill, I'm out $100 (I did once lose $200 cause my wallet fell out of my pocket. What really sucked was I had just gone to the ATM to pull money out). I still keep a little bit of cash on me though, for those times I want to pay with cash, or want to get a soda from the vending machine (which still only takes money).

I suppose in the future we will probably just use cards and electronic cash (credits similiar to sci-fi stories/movies), but until then, I can't see paper money and coins going away anytime soon. People still largely have the idea that paper money and coins are worth something, and that you can use them to pay for services and items (beats carrying around large stuff to barter with like in the old days). But I'm sure a time will come when people will just use little cards to do all their financial transactions, and anything else won't be accepted. I hope they're already thinking about this stuff, how to use it, and what hackers and other crooks might try to do to illegaly obtain money.

Jam it back in, in the dark.