Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)

by Mira Grant

The human race had always created dreamers whose seemingly frivolous dreams forced the creation of infrastructures and innovations that benefited everyone around them. He was just the latest in a long line of people who, by wanting something they could never have, dragged the rest of the world kicking and screaming into a new phase of the future.

The whole world changed when you found things.

each of them with needle in hand, watching gardens grow beneath their hands.