Throughout history, a society's economic and power relations and the resulting division into unequal strata have strongly influenced the system of information flow.1 Every civilization has generated its own information system, which functions to foster the integration of society, to standardize its values, and, in the long run, to legitimate the means by which basic needs are met, in keeping with the conditions that are necessary for the existence of the state. The basis of the information or ideological complex has been the means by which needs have been met, as it has developed out of the underlying factors that determine the development of any civilization: the state's geographic and geopolitical position; its climate, soils, terrain, minerals, water and territorial resources; and the cultural and historical level of its society. The history of humankind has been a history of changes in the conditions of human life as a result of human adaptation to the natural environment and the natural environment's adaptation to human needs.