jaron rainier helped create the first avatar, but he has a surprising text memessage. technology might not be the key to immortality. >> what are your thoughts on this idea that we will one day be able to merge ourselves with technology to live forever? >> the talk about uploading virtual reality, it's a great place to visit. it's not a place you want to live, really, especially not forever. right now, we don't know how the brain encodes information. oh, yeah, but sure we'll be able to down load the brain. there's a bit of hubris there. we have a lot more to learn about the brain. if we're talking about that already, we're being kind of nutty. >> and maybe he has a point. after all, lots of technologies