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"Google ignoring spam is like Microsoft ignoring the cloud." Great line!

That's the kind of line that I wish I could email to people in 1960 as an important business insight from 2011.

To them, it would sound like "Bla ignoring bla is like bla ignoring bla."

They would parse the words, but not the correct meanings.

The impression they'd come away with would be something like: (Extremely large number) ignoring canned meat is like (random company name) ignoring the high-altitude water vapor.

I just got mail from someone in 2060 saying "Scroomz is ignoring zork like Yooka ignored mulk"

More like "Scroomz is ignoring twinkies like Yooka ignored the tree."

Ignoring the damage of incentivized false-positives in searching our highly-connected global compendium of human knowledge and activity is at least as stupid as major producers of low cost consumer information goods and services failing to capitalize on the on-demand delivery and storage capacities of said compendium. Avoid both, please.

This is like writing stuff for the Voyager's Golden Record.

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