‘Can You Print a House?’: God, Robots and the U.S. Housing Crisis

‘Can You Print a House?’: God, Robots and the U.S. Housing Crisis

Growing up in a small town in East Texas, Jason Ballard didn’t imagine he would one day use robots to print houses. He was busy chasing flying squirrels and swimming with alligators in the dense conifer woods behind Texas’s pine curtain. He felt called to God in those woods, which always smelled like Christmas. He thought he would be a preacher, and after high school, he entered the formal discernment process, a testing-of-the-waters of priestho…