By endlesslyexploiting thenotionof the "thrill" murder, Hollywoodandtelevisionpresenttothe younganentirelyimaginary image of asociety in which killingforpleasureisacommonevent.
There's also a 1936 first edition of the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society where mathematician Alan Mathison Turing introduces the concept of a "universal machine, " an imaginary computing device.