Wow, just when you think you’ve heard it all, you get an odd call at home. Is this what evolution has in store for us? I mean, I’ve heard how visionaries imagine a world where machines will interact with each other automatically, without the need of a human intermediary, but I’ve got to admit the call I got yesterday freaked me out a little bit.

What happened was that my phone at home rang, I picked up the phone, said “Hello?”, and was greeted by an automated system (outbound call) that told me:

“We are sorry to disturb you. This message was intended to be received only by an answering machine. Thank you!” <hang-up>

Apparently, I’m not the only one, and from what I read there, it seems some lucky recipients are getting calls very early in the morning, or non-stop throughout the night.
Wasn’t that the whole reason people demanded a do-not-call national registry? But I guess that doesn’t make a difference anymore now that certain companies offering “Low Cost Voice Broadcasting” services mention as part of their offering the fact that they are “Clean against the National Do-Not-Call List”.

The worst part is I didn’t even know who was calling, otherwise I could’ve let my machine know it would need to call them back