Comment by eternityforest

This isn't a matter of "Keeping people as idiots". It's a matter of natural capability.

For some people there's a constant risk that at any moment your brain will glitch out and drop any file at any time. Even your most ingrained habits aren't reliable. No matter how important something is it can disappear from your mind like it was never there.

It's not a matter of skills you learn, it's a matter of someone who has never in their life been able to master a "When X I will do Y" process, and likely has never even been made aware that there's any issue beyond not trying hard enough or not caring.

I hear "You obviously don't care or you'd remember" pretty much all the time.

They care about their kids. They have probably been taught their whole life that leaving them in a hot car is something that only happens if you don't care.

When it happens they are as shocked as the rest of the world.

We don't have the option to choose who has kids and who doesn't. They do, and they're going to, and if you try to take them away to some horrid state orphanage they will probably have even worse lives.

Tech is a factor we can control. Maybe it will make things better, maybe worse, but that's what the studies are for.