jim steyer is the founder of common sense media and he joins us this morning.'ve edited a book of essays about the pros and cons of technology called which side of history, how technology is reshaping democracy and our lives. in my intro, i was hard on technology and suspect some of your contributors are, as well. >> we have contributors that range, some of the gurus of the tech world. i asked them the fundamental question you posted at the onset of the program. which side of the history is the tech industry on? if you're correct, many think tech is on the wrong side of history when we look at the impact on the election, including the 2020 election we're in the middle of now and also, we've shown over the past 15 years on the social, emotional and cognitive development of children. this is indeed a profound question that historians will be asking as we mentioned but i think everybody is asking it today and that's the point of this book. this is an issue for all of us. >> you mentioned cohen, i don't think of him being a media thinker but then again, he's pretty

emily: jim steyer out with a new book today. good to have you here on the show.f common sense media, check out the book "which side of history," out now. coming, amazon prime day kicks off in what many say will be a pandemic driven year of record spending due to customers spooked by in-person shopping. we will get an analyst's view, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: amazon's prime day sale is underway. as exhibit said -- it is expected to give the company an advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals. the analyst and managing director joins us for a closer look. we are in unprecedented times. will this be a prime day like no other? michael: some people call it prime day. i am calling it tuesday. amazon sales are ridiculous. take theirally guidance number and extrapolate the gross merchandise value, they are doing one at a quarter billion per day in normal sales all water. -- all quarter. the market are was talking about aboutarketer was talking this, sales are up five times for prime day. who cares? what we're hearing from the channel is that retailers and vendors ar

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jim go ahead and started that one. james steyer: thank you daniela and welcome everybody. two things come to mind immediately. first of all the most important election of our lifetimes. and i'm over 40 now so i can tell you this is really important election in my opinion. technology is playing a huge role in the selection. in any cases, there are people who are using it to undermine some of our democratic norms. so just in the context of the 2020 election, technology and the role the handful of really large tech companies absolutely paramount. in the second thing is as you know, the ceo of the common sense, advocacy group in the united states have well over 100 million users the focus mostly on the impact of technology and the children. an on their kids education. so what we are seeing at this point is in a covid-19 era were doing shows like this on the zoom screen, our kids are going to school on zoom screen. their lives are being shaped by technology and by screen information for unit and for any hours a day. so whether it is our democracy or the kids are the future of o