I for one am convinced that the next frontier is our mind. Information is free - it's your ability to digest it that's the bottleneck. Also, we don't really know a lot about how skills such as creativity, hypothesizing patterns from specific examples, etc. can be systematically learned.
Also, a lot of stuff here: http://www.columbia.edu/~nvg1/Wickelgren/
But what may have influenced my life the most is this book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Memory-How-Works-Improve/dp/15692...
I for one am convinced that the next frontier is our mind. Information is free - it's your ability to digest it that's the bottleneck. Also, we don't really know a lot about how skills such as creativity, hypothesizing patterns from specific examples, etc. can be systematically learned.