Post-Apocalypse

As long as I am able to make it to end of this year (the Mayan calendar expires December 23), I think the future would be a fairly interesting place. Although the idea of futuristic travel has been the plot of many books, movies and television shows, and the characters of those stories have difficulty adapting to the futuristic society, I would embrace the changes with open arms. I would love to see how issues of the past had been solved such as population control, use of clean resources, and corporatism. What problems would plague the future society, if any at all. Would civilizations in Africa and Asia finally catch up to western society? Would a new weapon be developed that poses more of a threat to life than a nuclear warhead? As far as adaptations go, I would love to see all the new technologies, hobbies, and lifestyles that people would participate. Going to the future via chronological freezing would be great.