Cell Phones Left Out -or- Old Ways Left Behind?

Something that most people don't notice (at least until you point it out) is how few telemarketing phone calls they get on their cell phones (For my purposes, any unsolicited phone call from an unknown individual is considered a telemarketing phone call). Sometimes, one might get through, especially if the marketer dials at random, or your cell phone number used to be a landline (more on that another day). Most of the time, though, your cell phone time is telemarketer free, for maximum enjoyment.

It seems, however, that other, more legitimate business are also affected by this trend; the example cited in the Wired article is political polling. Polling organizations are reluctant to call folks on their cell phone, with good reason. However, as more and more people ditch landlines altogether, they have no chance to be included in these polls; eventually, the validity of the sample goes all wonky, the poll is no longer statistically valid, and then society collapses, or something like that. I guess that's what happens when politicians have to trust their intuition or actually listen to their constituents to make a choice (maybe society actually will collapse if this occurs then). Oh well, I'm sure a way around this before that happens.

Wired News: Survey Says: Cell Phones Left Out