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The speaker is saying that while a computer is unlikely to win a literary prize, people have often underestimated what computers can do. The comparison suggests that apparent limits can be overturned by unexpected progress. It contrasts current expectations with examples from another field where machines succeeded.
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About Alastair Reynolds
Welsh science fiction author
Alastair Preston Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction author. He is known for hard science fiction and space opera, and his work is closely associated with those traditions. His fiction explores ideas grounded in science, then expands them into large-scale imagined futures and interstellar settings. He is especially identified with the technical rigour of hard science fiction and the broader sweep of space opera.
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Books by Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space
2020
Pushing Ice
2009
House of Suns
2009
Chasm City
2002
Century rain
2006