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Speaker 1: Your phone knows who's calling because of her. I welcome back. No.

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Speaker 1: It als to another episode of the most anticipated podcast

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Speaker 1: on the Black Effects Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled

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Speaker 1: I didn't Know Maybe you didn't either, And I'm your

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Speaker 1: host b dot And please make sure you're following us

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Speaker 1: on Instagram IDK myde with an underscore before it and

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Speaker 1: at the end, and make sure you're subscribed on YouTube

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Speaker 1: to check out visual content. Just put IDK myde in

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Speaker 1: your search bar, and you know you can do all

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Speaker 1: of that right there from the privacy and the comfort

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Speaker 1: of your own phone. And to kick off today's episode,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to give you three of the most useless

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Speaker 1: facts you'll never need not a day in life. Up

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Speaker 1: first caller, ID call waiting, and fiber optics, all technology

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Speaker 1: we take for granted. We're all built on research. Black woman.

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Speaker 1: Your second useless fact. Her name was doctor Shirley and Jackson,

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Speaker 1: and she earned her PhD in theoretical physics in nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy three. She's the first black woman to do so

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Speaker 1: at MIT. And your third useless fact. The very first

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Speaker 1: commercial telephone service the game in eighteen seventy seven, and

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Speaker 1: for decades after most calls was connected manually by a

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Speaker 1: human operator. Those have been your three useless facts. Caller,

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Speaker 1: i D, call waiting, and fiber optics were all technology

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Speaker 1: built on research by a black woman. Your second useless fact.

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Speaker 1: Her name was doctor Shirley Ann Jackson, and she was

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Speaker 1: the first black woman to earn a PhD at MIT

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Speaker 1: in seventy three. And your third useless fact, the very

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Speaker 1: first commercial telephone service the game in eighteen seventy seven,

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Speaker 1: and your calls were connected manually. I mean a stranger

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Speaker 1: was sitting there listening while they was connecting your calls.

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Speaker 1: But for today's episode, were you familiar with doctor Shirley

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Speaker 1: and Jackson Because I wasn't. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: You got that boy number saved and your phone is broken,

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Speaker 1: and that will pop up on the screen every time

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Speaker 1: he called broke. But you ain't never thought about who

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Speaker 1: made that possible? Have you? Doctor Shirley and Jackson a

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Speaker 1: theoretical physicist. She broke barriers in the seventies that we

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Speaker 1: still use today. Her work on semiconductors and fiber optic

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Speaker 1: technology and other stuff that I have no clue what

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Speaker 1: the hell I'm talking about, helped create caller I D

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Speaker 1: call waiting. The fiber optic communication system we use basically

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Speaker 1: the fact that you know that that's Brokeie calling and

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Speaker 1: you can connect the phone instantly or decline exists because

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Speaker 1: of the research of doctor Shirley and Jackson. Seriously think

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Speaker 1: about that for a second. Every zoom call that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to be on for work, every texts that

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Speaker 1: you leave on red, every FaceTime you ignore, remember when

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Speaker 1: every person in your phone had a different ring tone.

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Speaker 1: Her work laid the groundwork for all of that, and

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Speaker 1: yet how many tech histories give her front page credit.

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Speaker 1: Very few. Again, hidden in playing sites, just like the

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Speaker 1: March in one hundred, just like Alfred Crowley, just like

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Speaker 1: Marie van Britten Brown. If you've missed the previous four episodes,

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Speaker 1: you have no clue what that meant. But systems get built,

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Speaker 1: they get used, then most people forget who made them work.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jackson didn't invent these technologies to be famous. She

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Speaker 1: solved critical problems. Then the world caught up, and she

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Speaker 1: didn't stop there. Doctor Jackson went on to chair the

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Speaker 1: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She became the president of the rense

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Speaker 1: Layer Polytechnic Institute, and she received the National Medal of Science,

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Speaker 1: a lifetime of excellence built on foundational breakthroughs. So this

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, you think about who's calling by, but I

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Speaker 1: also remember the black woman whose science makes that notification possible.

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Speaker 1: Your connections ain't just digital, they're historical. One hundred years

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Speaker 1: after Carter G. Woodson carved a space to honor black achievement,

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Speaker 1: doctor Shirley Ann Jackson's research powers the way the world

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Speaker 1: communicates excellence that history often overlooks. And I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't either,