If memory serves the first transaction that took place on the internet was college students fucking around buying weed.

I think in the future larger ships will be constructed outside of Earth's atmosphere. People will use smaller ones to transition to the surface, or maybe like space elevators.

I also think eventually we won't rely on combustion to reach the atmosphere. My thoughts were centrifugal force or some kind of magnetic accelerator.

That being said, I am in no way an expert. Just some dude on reddit.