Contingency planning and disaster recovery

The ability to provide uninterruptable access to automated informational resources will be profoundly different in the Fifth Generation. The types of changes that we can expect are already being reflected in the emerging building blocks for the Fifth Generation. As our dependency on the computerized environment, as well as our need for easy access to informational resources increases, there is a corresponding increase in tools and mechanisms designed to allow us to quickly and easily recover from many types of natural and man-made disasters. Today, we are just beginning to address the need for uninterruptable access. By the Fifth Generation, we will have solved problems which today appear to be so complex as to be impossible to solve.