They say, for instance, that their funds are the only reason some nice things (like art galleries in England) have been built, arguing that national authorities were not that interested until Brussels got involved.
Voice-over-IP will change how new call centers are built, argues Stream International, a Canton, Mass.
Other cities, including Alhambra, hope to see the extension built, arguing that the long-planned connector is an important route for trucks from the Port of Los Angeles to inland transportation hubs.
If the pipeline was built, they argued in a paper published in the journal Nature, production in Alberta's tar sands would increase, leading to a drop in global oil prices, which would encourage greater fossil fuel consumption.
With the former monopolies allowed to extract large profits from old copper networks, carriers will have little incentive to build, they argued.
A lawyer's broad duty to keep clients' confidences is the bedrock on which the justice system is built, they argue.
To understand why blockchain matters, look past the wild speculation at what is being built underneath, argue the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency and its newly published follow-up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything.
"When inmates play football, they don't fight, they don't use drugs and a sense of teamwork based on respect for others can be built," he argues.
Supporters of the partially built plants argue that they will contain the latest, safest technology, and scrapping them now would mean writing off the tens of billions of yen already sunk into construction.
