A list of dystopian things WipEout has predicted so far

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ThE sOuL oF fOrMuLa OnE hAs FiNaLlY pErIsHeD. /sarcasm
But yeah, for a sport supposedly all about technological innovation, the FIA sure is obsessed with keeping F1 in the stone age.

Also, WipEout Pulse mentions the desertification of America. As an American, I'm sure not looking forward to that.
Not to mention Moa Therma and Vertica... Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.
And lastly, a eugenics center in Greenland. No to that.

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The description of Tech de Ra states that it is "the last refuge of the great American desert", suggesting that most desert landscapes in the United States have either dried out or were converted through commercialization.

The eugenics center in Platinum Rush... it startles me quite a lot, considering this is straight out of cybernetic implantation from Cyberpunk 2077. This isn't racist eugenics, but more of transhumanism, turning the human body into what was once sacred, into something profane. It's like people are often segregated, discriminated against, or shunned against society if their bodies aren't evolved with the latest cybernetic implants.

UPDATE:

Going back from earlier, where I did mention that WipEout predicted Blackpink, it's actually even scarier than anyone could ever think of. This isn't just me hating this group to such an extreme, but this is a horrifying scenario that could eventually be possible in the WipEout universe.

As WipEout Pure was released in 2005, and that the Paris Hair track was released in November of that year, this would be around 11 years before Blackpink's debut, in which the likenesses for Rose, Lisa and Jennie were indirectly and coincidentally predicted in the game. That's, at least, according to how it came to be in the real world.

And despite their music actually being quite terrible and lackluster in real life, with both the group and its fandom being inherently creepy, controversial and toxic to the core, with them likely being "the second coming of Lostprophets" - in the sense that they're a ticking time bomb for the biggest scandal in the history of the global music industry, they seem to have a powerful stronghold there, especially with them being called "the world's biggest girl group", boasting numbers of stream and view counts with their music, although it is not without suspicion.

But if it's anything to do with in-game lore, and with how Paris Hair exists in the FX300 League, then Blackpink may very well be the biggest and most monumental musical act in the history of mankind, even eclipsing historic and contemporary musical acts in the WipEout fictional universe, even past the group's eventual disbandment, and that by the time of around, realistically, the end of the F3600 League (around, at most, 2084), the members of the group would have all passed away by then.

This would mean that no matter how creepy and obsessive the cult of Blackpink's fandom may possibly be, even to a grossly extensive level, their legacy and its effects are so prevalent and dominant that they would persist as the most impactful and successful musical artists in history, that no one would ever seem to overtake them in terms of being the pinnacle of musical success and influence, potentially shaping the climate of the world's popular culture for many years to come.

The members, Jennie, Lisa, Rose (and to an extent, Jisoo, despite her not being predicted in Pure) may likely be considered as mythical legends even past their lifetimes, and given how technology has advanced in the WipEout universe, die-hard fans would keep their legacy alive even through means of unethical methods such as through AI and holographic technologies, thereby guaranteeing that they are overwhelmingly revered for generations.

This would mean that the two biggest obsessions by people around the world in the WipEout universe would be anti-gravity motorsports and Blackpink music.

This means that while us, the actual players, are used to playing the WipEout games with electronic and breakbeat music, if it's anything by the actual in-game lore and fictional universe, everyone is listening to this controversial K-pop girl group's music for nearly two centuries. Two centuries.

This would all culminate in the construction of the Paris Hair racetrack some time during the FX300 League, where track figures resembling Rose, Lisa and Jennie are prominently seen, serving as a testament to the group's legacy and cultural impact to the point of near-timelessness.

Actually pretty dystopian and scary if you ask me.