Explain me please the meaning of the phrase in next context:
Bleeding edge technology is a category of technologies so new that they could have a high risk of being unreliable and lead adopters to incur greater expense in order to make use of them. By its nature, a proportion of bleeding edge technology will make it into the mainstream. For example, email was once considered to be bleeding edge.
Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_edge_technology).
What is it in the sentence By its nature, a proportion of…? I'm confused because of the general meaning of phrase make smth into smth is
to change something into something else
Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online
So that as I think, in the By its nature… sentence, the bleeding edge technology is a subject, it is an object, and subject will change object (what exactly?) into mainstream. Or make it into is just an idiomatic construction with the meaning "become" or ''come into (use)" ? Can I then say "A proportion of bleeding edge technology will be made into the mainstream."?
Best Answer
"Make it into" means "make its way into."
For example, if you were waiting at the end of a very long line of people to get into a concert, I might ask you the next day: "Did you make it into the concert?"
Similarly, if you are trying to get to the post office before it closes, you might say, "I'm afraid I'm not going to make it."
So you've looked up the wrong definition. You're not making something into something, you're making it into something.
Applying this to your text, we could rewrite the sentence thus:
Or even:
This latter rewrite, however, does change the sense somewhat, in particular, the focus.
Edit: There is persistent insistence that "make something into something" means to transform. However, that is not the correct sense for this use of the phrase "make it into."
Rather, it is the preposition "into" with the phrasal verb "make it," meaning to reach or attain. It is not necessary to use an additional preposition, but it is possible. For example, you can ask someone, did you make it?
One can make it over the bridge; one can make it to the church in time; one can make it under the limbo bar. And an idea can make it into a document.
Here's a sample of what Google returned for an exact phrase search on "make it into." I am ignoring the hit for this question itself, for one irrelevant result, and I'm only counting the first instance of Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech; otherwise these are the results that appeared on the first two pages. I evaluate each result as to whether it represents the meaning "transform" or "attain inclusion."
Transform
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Transform
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Transform
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
Attain inclusion
That's three points for "transform" and twelve points for "attain inclusion."