Doesn’t much feel like the Age of Aquarius, so what shall we call it?
Our worship of the selfie and a sense of political impotence suggest we should call it the Age of Narcissyphus.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• Considering those at the helm of certain countries, then I fear we are in the Age of Cancer.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• Nefarious.
Jonathan Vanderels, Shaftsbury, Vermont, US
• The Age of Unreason, or, briefly, the Twitterage.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• My suggestion is the Age of Hilarious, but it’s a sick joke.
Neil Johnson, Birmingham, UK
• The Age of Querulousness?
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• Author Steve Fraser seems to have nailed it in the title of his book, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organised Wealth and Power.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
I’m sure that Siri will tell us
Is it time to rethink our definition of intelligence?
Who’s clever enough to know?
Edward P Wolfers, Austinmer, NSW, Australia
• A machine will soon decide more precisely on our behalf.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Intelligence: that’s what we use Siri for, isn’t it?
Marilyn Hamilton, Perth, Western Australia
• Beyond a doubt. However, even intelligence circles have difficulty thinking beyond the box.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
• Once we find some, perhaps.
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
Learn to see with your eyes
Would people travel as much if they could not take pictures?
If digital detox is important to you, then you would still explore the world, but minus the intrusion of a camera.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• Yes, if they wanted to see more of the world.
Maurice Trapp, Le Vigan, France
• I stopped carrying a camera when travelling as soon as I realised that taking pictures stopped me from actually looking at what was in front of me.
Chris Kennedy, Stella, Ontario, Canada
• If they could find another way to share it.
Lillian Henning, Nantucket, Massachusetts, US
Geopolitical competition
What makes a great game?
• Empires knocking hell out of one another.
Paul Broady, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Thinking your side will lose, but they don’t.
Charlie Pearson, Portland, Oregon, US
• In hockey I will argue it’s great goaltending.
Terence Rowell, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Opponents who don’t crow when winning and then whine or sulk when losing.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• In a great game you know it is only a game, not to be taken too seriously, and that sometimes you lose.
Reiner Jaakson, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Any answers?
Whatever became of those ‘little pink houses for you and me’?
RM Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
When does infatuation turn to love?
John Geffroy, Las Vegas, New Mexico, US
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