neato idea, BUT this doesnt change much. The question is who has the MAJORITY hashing power, giving it to everyone doesn't prevent people from forming pools and profiting from nefarious activity of those pools.
-bm
I was thinking about the following:
When the bitcoin will become economically stronger in the (near) future, it could spawn the next generation of personal computers. The processor would be designed from scratch and the specification would be completely open-source for anyone to review. The part of the architecture would be also small ASIC miner(s) presented in such a PC.
The OS will be Linux-derived or created from scratch, and the basic bitcoin software will be build in, so every computer will be also the bitcoin node by default, p2pool, wallet and other software will be also pre-installed. Also, all services requiring privacy will be provided by decentralized blockchain, like for example Bitmessage for communication, etc.
To sum it up, it will be something also Richard Stallman would use (free in the FSF sense), and I believe bitcoin could make this economically viable. I wonder what do you think about this idea.
If every new computer had a built in ASIC of the latest design, the majority would probably be the masses.