I’ve been slowly digesting Talk to Me, the collection of essays edited by Paola Antonelli (of MoMA) over the holidays. As she says in the preface, Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us. They do not all speak aloud: some communicate in text, diagrams, and other graphic interfaces; others empathetically and almost telepathically, just keeping us company and storing our memories; still others in sensual ways, with warmth, scent, texture.