00:13History never knew the dragon we speak of today, the artificial intelligence.
00:18Yet history tells us that the Babylonians and the civilizations that followed them in
00:23Mesopotamia, along with the ancient Egyptians, Persians, Romans, Greeks, and others, were
00:29the ones who first conceived and developed the idea of a museum through centuries of
00:32accumulated experience.
00:34But today, things have changed.
00:40In recent years, virtual museums have emerged, presenting their collections in an intangible
00:47digital space, one no thief or vandal can ever touch.
00:52And now, artificial intelligence enters this vast landscape once again.
00:57Perhaps, we are on the brink of transformation that will redefine museums and their security
01:02altogether.
01:03Whether physical or virtual, the museum remains a place where history completes its cycle, where
01:09history became full circle, returning us to the same human impulse to collect, preserve,
01:15and display.
01:16It was the French and the British.
01:18The French of the French Revolution, they took the royal collections and they said, okay,
01:21this is not just for the nobility who are coming once in a while, we can, and not just for
01:26art students, it can be opened up to everyone.
01:28So, it was made accessible, especially to art students, and on certain days to the public.
01:34And it became popular.
01:35And the British did the same thing with the British Museum.
01:38Now, in the 19th century, museums were also research centers.
01:41You know, they do a lot of archaeology in the Middle East.
01:45They did a whole lot of Egyptology.
01:47That's really what got them off the ground.
01:49And then they stored the big national paintings, you know, Napoleon Crossing, a mountain pass,
01:56and such grand paintings.
01:59But it was in the 20th century that it really, really got off the ground because it became
02:04a mass tourism attraction and brought in a lot of revenue.
02:19Museums, despite their symbolic and cultural weight, are not all fortified like high-end
02:24jewelry stores.
02:26They rarely anticipate the possibility of a bold daylight robbery.
02:31And so, the weaknesses are far greater than the average visitor ever imagines.
02:36In just minutes, the heist of the century, as the French now call it, along with royal crowns
02:42and historic necklaces, vanished into the bustle of Parisian streets.
02:47The spectacle stunned the French and the world, revealing the fragility of a place long thought
02:53to be one of the safest guardians of human heritage.
02:56Isn't a museum the most protected space on the planet?
03:00The world found itself witnessing an event where time seemed to stand still.
03:05An audience surrounded by a forest of phone cameras, inside a hall, devoid of surveillance.
03:11In the past, before the era of artificial intelligence, people reacted to such shocks by taking to
03:17the streets, joining strikes, waving flags, writing songs, demanding justice.
03:23The world found itself, involving the vaccinated and ritualist.
03:26A fact on the world after the first time of the year, being in the past.
03:26The world found itself in a world after the last time of the year of the last time of the
03:27year,
03:27The world found itself in a place where there were a family of the artists and the nations of the
03:27Sovere sicily
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