It seems counterintuitive, but Google’s new and somewhat uncanny Duplex system is all about helping consumers use Google less. The new assistant, which was demonstrated making calls to book a haircut, is designed to connect the Google and Android digital world with the analog world – calling fleshy humans on its user’s behalf, for that frictionless experience. The end goal here is to create better customer experiences inside Android and the wider Google ecosystem. It’s an extension of Assistant, intended to work behind the scenes once a user asks ‘Hey Google, book me a table at a nice restaurant tonight’. In theory, this would be seamless, and involve a single voice command – rather than the manual process of searches,…