Significance of The Cabin

The cabin in the story titled "Openness" symbolizes the old world. Weinstein's world in this novel is futuristic. However, the cabin represents an earlier time when people's brains were not directly hooked up to software. This is a location where a person fishes to catch dinner. It is a quiet, uncrowded location where people have to connect to one another by talking. These ideas seem absurd to Andy, who is a modern man in Weinstein's fictional world. The cabin is a place where people are forced to disconnect and interact with one another in ways they stopped using.