Prashant Marathay , lead software developer for the Memory : Not Impossible project , conducts a brainstorming session with healthcare professionals who specialize in memory loss .
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PHOTO COURTESY OF NOT IMPOSSIBLE LABS own tech company , Infinite Options , in 2018 . Marathay saw a presentation on Memory : Not Impossible that Ebeling gave in early 2019 and volunteered to join the team .
Like other team members , he was eager to make a difference in the life of Caitlin Little , whose amnesia stems from a concussion she suffered during a high school track practice , colliding head-to-head with a teammate in October 2017 . Although she can remember everything in her life up to the accident , her working memory lasts only 60 seconds at a time . Caitlin ’ s mother Jenn had to take a leave of absence from her job as a teacher to care for her daughter .
At Marathay ’ s first Memory : Not Impossible roundtable discussion in Los Angeles , he met his fellow team members for the first time . “ I was amazed at the talent sitting alongside me — doctors , artificial intelligence experts , hardware developers , and software designers ,” Marathay says . “ But what struck me most was the twinkle in everyone ’ s eyes that we were doing something remarkable .”
Like other team members , Marathay kept his day job at Infinite Options and tapped the company ’ s brain trust in assisting the Memory : Not Impossible project . “ I led a group of employees to think outside the box in helping someone like Caitlin ,” he says . “ Caitlin is forced to live in the moment . Consequently , we felt the technology solution also needed to reside in the moment .”
A series of brainstorming sessions culminated in Infinite Options ’ first contribution to the project — a mobile application called Manifest . The prototype app , which can
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