Kraftwerk’s vision of computer love | Brief letters

Florian Schneider obituary | Insects | Cuckoos are back | San Serriffe | Love Island Florian Schneider’s music was uncannily prophetic as well as transcendent (Obituary, 7 May). For instance, Kraftwerk’s beautiful Computer Love predicted how, in the future, intimacy would increasingly occur through technology. Of course, during the present emergency, the closest many lovers come to being together is by using a virtual medium.
Joe McCarthy
Dublin• On a recent essential car journe