Paperlessness, from being a curio, is quickly becoming a way of life. Even in the UK, traditionally behind most Asian and West European countries in that particular technology, more than half of all retail purchases are now paid for using cards and supermarket cashiers enquire routinely if a shopper needs a receipt - which most of us do not. Paperless payments have progressed enormously since then. In the end, the driver agreed to accept a banknote to let me in, while other passengers stared at me with mixture of pity and puzzlement, as they would probably look at a confused alien who had accidentally boarded a tram instead of his habitual UFO. I didn’t know that even then Estonian society was already practically cashless and public transport fares could be paid with mobile phones. I will never forget my embarrassment on a tram in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, eight years ago when it turned out that I was the only passenger trying to pay my fare with cash - still not euros then, but old Estonian kroons, a stack of which I got at Heathrow in exchange for pounds.
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