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 oh-so 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,…