Part-time President

In the future, power will become less tied to the individual and increasingly embedded in structure. What we currently recognize as political office, concentrated in a single person or a small group, will gradually dissolve into a network of coordinated roles. Authority will cease to be a position one occupies and will instead become a process in which many participate. In other words, power will become protocol rather than identity.

Decisions will not arise from the will of an individual but from collective expression. Representatives may still exist, but their role will not be sovereign, only operational. They will not decide on behalf of others but will execute what the collective has already determined. Their function will be executive, not politically autonomous.

Such roles will not be permanent. They will be short-term, project-based, or rotational, tied to specific tasks rather than sustained political careers. Positions of power will not be held but activated when needed and dissolved once their purpose is fulfilled. With this, the notion of a fixed political identity begins to disappear.

The legitimacy of such a system will derive from participation and transparency. Decisions will be accepted not because they originate from authority, but because individuals took part in shaping them. The absence of a permanent elite will reduce the distance between governance and those governed.

During the transitional phase, while systems are still restructuring, it would make sense for certain figures to symbolically consolidate specific functions. However, even these figures would be temporary, limited, and functionally defined. The metaphor of a "part-time president" does not imply a weakened role, but rather a different distribution of power, one in which no position carries lasting concentration of decision-making.

As collective intelligence continues to develop, the need for permanent leaders will diminish. Governance will shift from personality to system, from identity to coordination. Functions will become temporary, situational, and distributed.

Such a model will not emerge abruptly, nor through a single institutional form. It will evolve gradually, as technological, social, and cognitive conditions enable ever greater fragmentation of power.

In this sense, the "part-time president" is not a proposal for office, but a diagnosis of direction, a sign that authority is ceasing to be centralized in a figure and is becoming distributed within a structure.

The F.T