As an example, I am irritated by evolution not being taken far enough on the net.
Sure, you can view open source as evolution in action, but much of that relies on human intelligence rather than a more direct evolutionary process (e.g., like genetic programming).
One can imagine some sort of evolutionary process that is midway between genetic programming and human intelligence.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation
This isn't to say that we have the patent on The Scientific Method. However, there are darn few organizations which seem to have it written into their DNA. Toyota does, famously. Imagine what would happen if your typical big-city school system did. ("First order of business: we had 37 A/B tests running in first grade classrooms last week. 31 of them did not lead to substantial results. Let's hear from our lead statistician about one promising innovation, which improved vocabulary retention among our lowest performing quartile of black students by 15%...")