It could even (if we want to get all grand and optimistic) turn out to be a Gutenberg-style revolution — not for writing, this time, but for reading.
Mr Brown made the most of it, and of the fact that his prediction for the economy in 2003, which many thought over-optimistic, turned out to be spot on.
And this, belatedly, is where the film takes a more optimistic turn.
In an optimistic turn towards judicial sanity, federal judge Ann Montgomery recently ruled the infamous "flying imams" could proceed with their case against law enforcement officials who wrongly arrested them and escorted them off their US Airways flight.
Since late November, Wall Street has taken a more optimistic turn, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising by more than 1,000 points, to close at 12,422.06 on Friday.
Richard Vine The Harmons' attempts to sell the house take an optimistic turn, as a businessman shows an interest in the knock-down price, seemingly untroubled by it being haunted, evil and deadly.
Last week the debate about the fate of oil in the gulf took, according to major media reports, an optimistic turn.
Her more optimistic take turned out to be right.
(Or, in a more optimistic scenario, turn it into what Dennis Overbye of The Times called "a shrunken dense dead lump").
Speaking to the press moments after the defeat to Wolves, and before Salerno's visit, Milanic said he still felt optimistic about turning the team's fortunes around, despite the owner's reputation for impatience.
But sometimes just a day or so later, with a glimmer of hope that Europe is pulling away from the abyss or that the United States is picking up steam, newly optimistic investors turn around and rush back from cash into harder assets, like stocks, foreign bonds or commodities, pushing prices higher together.
