in opposing innovation which statement best describes how the author responds to the criticism that adoption of new technologies intensifies the issue of income inequality

The text says that the adoption of new technologies intensifies the issue of income inequality by letting the ones with access to it to be more valuable employees with better salaries than those who didn't have the access to new technologies to develop necessary skills.

Explanation:

All right, first of all, the author quotes MIT's Sloan School of management to say this argument. Explaining that they found that people that had the opportunity to access new technologies developed necessary skills for certain jobs. That this phenomenon created a gap between the ones with access to those technologies and those who didn't and that it created a new gap in the inequality social dimension.