Technology is an inevitable aspect of today's society. From getting up at seven sharp for that morning meeting, to falling asleep to the hum of the eleven o'clock news, people don't even think about how much technology affects their daily lives as human beings. However, there are also more specific applications of advanced technology, such as improving research capabilities for agriculture and medicine, reinventing the way people or groups communicate, especially in terms of advocating for political or social change, and even revolutionizing the way students learn in school. Today, due to the influx, classrooms and labs seem more foreign to those who attended university a couple of decades ago. This is especially evident in the field of agriculture. Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of environmental science and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, has studied the effect the human race has had on certain plants and their well-being. One of his many written works, The Botany of Desire, concerns these particular studies. Pollan talks about four traits that individuals desire in life, which are sweetness, beauty, control and exhilaration. He finds that humans have manipulated many crops to acquire these attributes, but four profound examples were the sweetness of apples, the beauty of tulips, the control of potatoes, and the intoxication of cannabis or marijuana. But acquiring these qualities meant manipulating them with tools, chemicals, and interfering with the natural biological process. Pollan said, “plants are so different from people that it is very difficult for us to fully appreciate their complexity and sophistication” (Pollan xix). This is key to understanding what a narrow approach to a problem might do. If a scientist doesn't know the specifics of a plant and then tries to make a very specific change, it might happen unexpectedly. Or, if the scientist knew the plant very well, but only thought about problems that might arise in the near future, instead of also considering long-term problems, there could still be disastrous results. This advanced thinking may have been acquired through broader education, especially consisting of problem-solving skills. However, some information cannot always be obtained through ethics