By Della L. Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Mayor Michael Bloomberg rhapsodized about the iPad during his weekly radio show Friday, saying the device would be instrumental in making the city run more efficiently and even hinting that the iPad could be the future of journalism.
The mayor said the iPad may help improve business models of online newspapers and magazines by providing new designs for layout and advertising. He said that a magazine has nothing to do with whether or not something is printed on paper — it's about the content produced, regardless of format.
Bloomberg cited his own recent download of an issue of Business Week, owned by his news company Bloomberg LP, as well as the Economist as examples of magazines he peruses on his iPad.
“It’s amazing how much you can have at your fingertips,” Bloomberg said on the show. “Everybody’s trying to automate. Everybody needs information.”
Bloomberg said automation was the way of the future and said technology would be use to streamline and modernize more analog processes, such as punching time cards at work.
“There’s no hanky panky with modern technology,” the mayor said.
