In Cat’s Cradle and “Confido” by Kurt Vonnegut, both stories seek to convey how innovations can often have a negative impact on families and society. It is shown in Cat’s Cradle that the world ends due to one innovation. In “Confido”, the innovation created affects behaviors in a family. It is important that people use science and technology for appropriate matters because it can cause harm to society. In Cat’s Cradle, two inventions are brought up in the story that can be extremely fatal. These two developments are ice-nine and the atomic bomb. They are considered to cause Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D). Both were created by Felix Hoenikker. Felix was never focused on his family because he invested all of his time into science. This