'When I was fourteen, my family went on .... I have always been allergic to the idea of going somewhere for...'

When the author was 2? Quite insightful!

'“Experiences,” on the other hand, are false, controlled encounters with a pseudo-reality, which Rosen blames mostly on digital technology.'

This trajectory under capitalism was sketched out by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (and Marx and Freud and others), and explored at length by many subsequent thinkers, e.g. Debord, Baudrillard, Postman, and Derrida if you hold him right. That is, way ahead of the computer explosion at the turn of the millenium.