Trump, gorillas and white elephants | Brief letters
Earl Yardley, of Industrial Vision Systems (Letters, 14 October), says that in the future robots will not replace humans and instead the two will work "in partnership". A touch complacent, maybe? Last May the iPhone parts maker Foxconn reduced its employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000, thanks to the introduction of robots. I have yet to hear where the 60,000 replaced workers were redeployed. I suspect they weren't. So, while hoping that everything will work out for the best, perhaps we do need to work on a plan B as well.
Bill Sharp
Chichester, West Sussex
" Has Nigel Farage revealed the way to deal with Donald Trump? He has compared Trump to a silverback gorilla, like the one that escaped from London Zoo (Report, 14 October). The gorilla was shot with a tranquillising dart and then put back in his cage.
Peter Gorty
Weybridge, Surrey