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Originally Posted by Pinecone
In "Inherit the Stars" by James P. Hogan, the character opens his briefcase on a flights (suborbital) and uses the screen to place a video call. Hmm, sounds a lot like Skype on a laptop. Written in 1976.
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The 1935 movie
The Tunnel (aka
The Trans-Atlantic Tunnel) features videophones in planes.
Metropolis (1926) also presented a videophone. It's worth noting that, in terms of
Metropolis' robot, it didn't exactly "run amok"... it was programmed to incite the workers to riot, and it did its job as well as any human could have done.